This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nvme-pci: always return an ERR_PTR from nvme_pci_alloc_dev to the 6.1-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: nvme-pci-always-return-an-err_ptr-from-nvme_pci_allo.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 3fb308d1e265d2caf1b7f3e86a10f6c380631725 Author: Irvin Cote <irvin.cote@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Feb 9 17:43:57 2023 -0300 nvme-pci: always return an ERR_PTR from nvme_pci_alloc_dev [ Upstream commit dc785d69d753a3894c93afc23b91404652382ead ] Don't mix NULL and ERR_PTR returns. Fixes: 2e87570be9d2 ("nvme-pci: factor out a nvme_pci_alloc_dev helper") Signed-off-by: Irvin Cote <irvin.cote@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c index f28f50ea273a9..64990a2cfd0a7 100644 --- a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c @@ -3117,7 +3117,7 @@ static struct nvme_dev *nvme_pci_alloc_dev(struct pci_dev *pdev, dev = kzalloc_node(sizeof(*dev), GFP_KERNEL, node); if (!dev) - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); INIT_WORK(&dev->ctrl.reset_work, nvme_reset_work); INIT_WORK(&dev->remove_work, nvme_remove_dead_ctrl_work); mutex_init(&dev->shutdown_lock); @@ -3162,8 +3162,8 @@ static int nvme_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *id) int result = -ENOMEM; dev = nvme_pci_alloc_dev(pdev, id); - if (!dev) - return -ENOMEM; + if (IS_ERR(dev)) + return PTR_ERR(dev); result = nvme_dev_map(dev); if (result)