From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 11:16:59 +0000
Subject: [patch] vhost: NULL vs ERR_PTR bug
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To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org

There is only one caller for vhost_kvzalloc() and it expects NULL on
allocation failure.  Most people would probably expect that so let's
change ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) to NULL.

Fixes: 4de7255f7d2b ('vhost: extend memory regions allocation to vmalloc')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index a9fe859..99d613b 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -686,7 +686,7 @@ static void *vhost_kvzalloc(unsigned long size)
 	if (!n) {
 		n = vzalloc(size);
 		if (!n)
-			return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+			return NULL;
 	}
 	return n;
 }