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authorSudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>2015-09-21 15:48:19 +0530
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-10-04 12:55:59 +0100
commita9e5fe58265d2af5472ea49ec82428e53ac00431 (patch)
tree7057913f4091ba88adae14e8bbdead5867d88c78 /drivers/misc
parent9dcf9cbfa17f03a4ecda4310ab76138ce9173555 (diff)
downloadlinux-a9e5fe58265d2af5472ea49ec82428e53ac00431.tar.gz
misc: sgi-gru: fix return of error
If kzalloc() fails then gms is NULL and we are returning NULL, but the
functions which called this function gru_register_mmu_notifier() are not
expecting NULL as the return. They are expecting either a valid pointer
or the error code in ERR_PTR.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
Acked-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/misc')
-rw-r--r--drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c20
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c b/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c
index 757a8e9aabdb..e936d43895d2 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c
@@ -306,16 +306,16 @@ struct gru_mm_struct *gru_register_mmu_notifier(void)
 		atomic_inc(&gms->ms_refcnt);
 	} else {
 		gms = kzalloc(sizeof(*gms), GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (gms) {
-			STAT(gms_alloc);
-			spin_lock_init(&gms->ms_asid_lock);
-			gms->ms_notifier.ops = &gru_mmuops;
-			atomic_set(&gms->ms_refcnt, 1);
-			init_waitqueue_head(&gms->ms_wait_queue);
-			err = __mmu_notifier_register(&gms->ms_notifier, current->mm);
-			if (err)
-				goto error;
-		}
+		if (!gms)
+			return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+		STAT(gms_alloc);
+		spin_lock_init(&gms->ms_asid_lock);
+		gms->ms_notifier.ops = &gru_mmuops;
+		atomic_set(&gms->ms_refcnt, 1);
+		init_waitqueue_head(&gms->ms_wait_queue);
+		err = __mmu_notifier_register(&gms->ms_notifier, current->mm);
+		if (err)
+			goto error;
 	}
 	if (gms)
 		gru_dbg(grudev, "gms %p, refcnt %d\n", gms,