6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Mirsad Todorovac <mtodorovac69@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit ff1060813d9347e8c45c8b8cff93a4dfdb6726ad ] On the linux-next, next-20241108 vanilla kernel, the coccinelle tool gave the following error report: ./net/9p/trans_usbg.c:912:5-11: ERROR: allocation function on line 911 returns NULL not ERR_PTR on failure kzalloc() failure is fixed to handle the NULL return case on the memory exhaustion. Fixes: a3be076dc174d ("net/9p/usbg: Add new usb gadget function transport") Cc: Michael Grzeschik <m.grzeschik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christian Schoenebeck <linux_oss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: v9fs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Mirsad Todorovac <mtodorovac69@xxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <20241109211840.721226-2-mtodorovac69@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/9p/trans_usbg.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/9p/trans_usbg.c b/net/9p/trans_usbg.c index 975b76839dca1..6b694f117aef2 100644 --- a/net/9p/trans_usbg.c +++ b/net/9p/trans_usbg.c @@ -909,9 +909,9 @@ static struct usb_function_instance *usb9pfs_alloc_instance(void) usb9pfs_opts->buflen = DEFAULT_BUFLEN; dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*dev), GFP_KERNEL); - if (IS_ERR(dev)) { + if (!dev) { kfree(usb9pfs_opts); - return ERR_CAST(dev); + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); } usb9pfs_opts->dev = dev; -- 2.43.0