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* [PATCH] devm_memremap: Fix error value when memremap failed
@ 2016-02-06  1:40 ` Toshi Kani
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Toshi Kani @ 2016-02-06  1:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm, dan.j.williams; +Cc: linux-nvdimm, linux-mm, linux-kernel, Toshi Kani

devm_memremap() returns an ERR_PTR() value in case of error.
However, it returns NULL when memremap() failed.  This causes
the caller, such as the pmem driver, to proceed and oops later.

Change devm_memremap() to return ERR_PTR(-ENXIO) when memremap()
failed.

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
 kernel/memremap.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/memremap.c b/kernel/memremap.c
index 70ee377..3427cca 100644
--- a/kernel/memremap.c
+++ b/kernel/memremap.c
@@ -136,8 +136,10 @@ void *devm_memremap(struct device *dev, resource_size_t offset,
 	if (addr) {
 		*ptr = addr;
 		devres_add(dev, ptr);
-	} else
+	} else {
 		devres_free(ptr);
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENXIO);
+	}
 
 	return addr;
 }

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2016-02-06  1:40 [PATCH] devm_memremap: Fix error value when memremap failed Toshi Kani
2016-02-06  1:40 ` Toshi Kani
2016-02-06  1:24 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-02-06  1:24   ` Ross Zwisler
2016-02-06  1:49 ` Dan Williams
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