From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> commit abfb689711aaebd14d893236c6ea4bcdfb61e74c upstream. The rpcrdma_create_req() function returns error pointers or success. It never returns NULL. Fixes: f531a5dbc451 ('xprtrdma: Pre-allocate backward rpc_rqst and send/receive buffers') Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/backchannel.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/backchannel.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/backchannel.c @@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ static int rpcrdma_bc_setup_rqst(struct size_t size; req = rpcrdma_create_req(r_xprt); - if (!req) - return -ENOMEM; + if (IS_ERR(req)) + return PTR_ERR(req); req->rl_backchannel = true; size = RPCRDMA_INLINE_WRITE_THRESHOLD(rqst);