This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled RDMA/uverbs: Fix a NULL vs IS_ERR() bug to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: rdma-uverbs-fix-a-null-vs-is_err-bug.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit ea7125763ee6909011ff42acbae448339ee1de8c Author: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri May 14 17:18:10 2021 +0300 RDMA/uverbs: Fix a NULL vs IS_ERR() bug [ Upstream commit 463a3f66473b58d71428a1c3ce69ea52c05440e5 ] The uapi_get_object() function returns error pointers, it never returns NULL. Fixes: 149d3845f4a5 ("RDMA/uverbs: Add a method to introspect handles in a context") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YJ6Got+U7lz+3n9a@mwanda Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_std_types_device.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_std_types_device.c index a03021d94e11..049684880ae0 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_std_types_device.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_std_types_device.c @@ -117,8 +117,8 @@ static int UVERBS_HANDLER(UVERBS_METHOD_INFO_HANDLES)( return ret; uapi_object = uapi_get_object(attrs->ufile->device->uapi, object_id); - if (!uapi_object) - return -EINVAL; + if (IS_ERR(uapi_object)) + return PTR_ERR(uapi_object); handles = gather_objects_handle(attrs->ufile, uapi_object, attrs, out_len, &total);