This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
drm/vboxvideo: fix a NULL vs IS_ERR() check
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:
drm-vboxvideo-fix-a-null-vs-is_err-check.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 8ab9d4259e625688d7106cd03c4221ae7f74895d
Author: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Nov 18 14:12:33 2021 +0300
drm/vboxvideo: fix a NULL vs IS_ERR() check
[ Upstream commit cebbb5c46d0cb0615fd0c62dea9b44273d0a9780 ]
The devm_gen_pool_create() function never returns NULL, it returns
error pointers.
Fixes: 4cc9b565454b ("drm/vboxvideo: Use devm_gen_pool_create")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20211118111233.GA1147@kili
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/vbox_main.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/vbox_main.c
index d68d9bad76747..c5ea880d17b29 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/vbox_main.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/vbox_main.c
@@ -123,8 +123,8 @@ int vbox_hw_init(struct vbox_private *vbox)
/* Create guest-heap mem-pool use 2^4 = 16 byte chunks */
vbox->guest_pool = devm_gen_pool_create(vbox->ddev.dev, 4, -1,
"vboxvideo-accel");
- if (!vbox->guest_pool)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ if (IS_ERR(vbox->guest_pool))
+ return PTR_ERR(vbox->guest_pool);
ret = gen_pool_add_virt(vbox->guest_pool,
(unsigned long)vbox->guest_heap,
