From: Xie Yongji <xieyongji@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 1057afa0121db8bd3ca4718c8e0ca12388ab7759 ] The vdpa_alloc_device() returns an error pointer upon failure, not NULL. To handle the failure correctly, this replaces NULL check with IS_ERR() check and propagate the error upwards. Fixes: 5a2414bc454e ("virtio: Intel IFC VF driver for VDPA") Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Xie Yongji <xieyongji@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210715080026.242-3-xieyongji@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/vdpa/ifcvf/ifcvf_main.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/ifcvf/ifcvf_main.c b/drivers/vdpa/ifcvf/ifcvf_main.c index ab0ab5cf0f6e..1c6cd5276a50 100644 --- a/drivers/vdpa/ifcvf/ifcvf_main.c +++ b/drivers/vdpa/ifcvf/ifcvf_main.c @@ -477,9 +477,9 @@ static int ifcvf_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *id) adapter = vdpa_alloc_device(struct ifcvf_adapter, vdpa, dev, &ifc_vdpa_ops, NULL); - if (adapter == NULL) { + if (IS_ERR(adapter)) { IFCVF_ERR(pdev, "Failed to allocate vDPA structure"); - return -ENOMEM; + return PTR_ERR(adapter); } pci_set_master(pdev); -- 2.30.2