[PATCH 2/3] uprobes: simplify error handling for alloc_uprobe()

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>]

From: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>

Return -ENOMEM instead of NULL, which makes caller's error handling just
a touch simpler.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
---
 kernel/events/uprobes.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index 4950decebe5c..e5b7c6239970 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -725,7 +725,7 @@ static struct uprobe *alloc_uprobe(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset,
 
 	uprobe = kzalloc(sizeof(struct uprobe), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!uprobe)
-		return NULL;
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
 	uprobe->inode = inode;
 	uprobe->offset = offset;
@@ -1166,8 +1166,6 @@ int uprobe_register(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, loff_t ref_ctr_offset,
 
  retry:
 	uprobe = alloc_uprobe(inode, offset, ref_ctr_offset);
-	if (!uprobe)
-		return -ENOMEM;
 	if (IS_ERR(uprobe))
 		return PTR_ERR(uprobe);
 
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