Not every failure is due to out-of-memory; the ACLs might not be set, too. So return a detailed error code in ft_sess_create() instead of just a NULL pointer. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/target/tcm_fc/tfc_sess.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/target/tcm_fc/tfc_sess.c b/drivers/target/tcm_fc/tfc_sess.c index 6ffbb60..cc8c261 100644 --- a/drivers/target/tcm_fc/tfc_sess.c +++ b/drivers/target/tcm_fc/tfc_sess.c @@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ static struct ft_sess *ft_sess_create(struct ft_tport *tport, u32 port_id, sess = kzalloc(sizeof(*sess), GFP_KERNEL); if (!sess) - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); kref_init(&sess->kref); /* ref for table entry */ sess->tport = tport; @@ -234,8 +234,9 @@ static struct ft_sess *ft_sess_create(struct ft_tport *tport, u32 port_id, TARGET_PROT_NORMAL, &initiatorname[0], sess, ft_sess_alloc_cb); if (IS_ERR(sess->se_sess)) { + int rc = PTR_ERR(sess->se_sess); kfree(sess); - return NULL; + sess = ERR_PTR(rc); } return sess; } -- 1.8.5.6 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html