Currently it returns an error pointer, but the only possible failure is ENOMEM. After a followup patch, we'd need to discard the errno code, i.e. x = pipapo_clone() if (IS_ERR(x)) return NULL or make more changes to fix up callers to expect IS_ERR() code from set->ops->deactivate(). So simplify this and make it return ptr-or-null. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nft_set_pipapo.c | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nft_set_pipapo.c b/net/netfilter/nft_set_pipapo.c index b8205d961ba4..7b6d5d2d0d54 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nft_set_pipapo.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nft_set_pipapo.c @@ -1395,7 +1395,7 @@ static int nft_pipapo_insert(const struct net *net, const struct nft_set *set, * pipapo_clone() - Clone matching data to create new working copy * @old: Existing matching data * - * Return: copy of matching data passed as 'old', error pointer on failure + * Return: copy of matching data passed as 'old' or NULL. */ static struct nft_pipapo_match *pipapo_clone(struct nft_pipapo_match *old) { @@ -1405,7 +1405,7 @@ static struct nft_pipapo_match *pipapo_clone(struct nft_pipapo_match *old) new = kmalloc(struct_size(new, f, old->field_count), GFP_KERNEL); if (!new) - return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); + return NULL; new->field_count = old->field_count; new->bsize_max = old->bsize_max; @@ -1477,7 +1477,7 @@ static struct nft_pipapo_match *pipapo_clone(struct nft_pipapo_match *old) free_percpu(new->scratch); kfree(new); - return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); + return NULL; } /** @@ -1797,7 +1797,7 @@ static void nft_pipapo_commit(struct nft_set *set) return; new_clone = pipapo_clone(priv->clone); - if (IS_ERR(new_clone)) + if (!new_clone) return; priv->dirty = false; @@ -1821,7 +1821,7 @@ static void nft_pipapo_abort(const struct nft_set *set) m = rcu_dereference_protected(priv->match, nft_pipapo_transaction_mutex_held(set)); new_clone = pipapo_clone(m); - if (IS_ERR(new_clone)) + if (!new_clone) return; priv->dirty = false; @@ -2269,8 +2269,8 @@ static int nft_pipapo_init(const struct nft_set *set, /* Create an initial clone of matching data for next insertion */ priv->clone = pipapo_clone(m); - if (IS_ERR(priv->clone)) { - err = PTR_ERR(priv->clone); + if (!priv->clone) { + err = -ENOMEM; goto out_free; } -- 2.43.2