From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 07:26:03 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch] block-dev: checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR() Message-Id: <20160315072603.GC11669@infradead.org> List-Id: References: <20160308120546.GB28684@mwanda> In-Reply-To: <20160308120546.GB28684@mwanda> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Dan Carpenter Cc: Alexander Viro , Shaohua Li , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 03:05:46PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > This should be an IS_ERR() check. mount_pseudo() returns error pointers > and this function should return the error pointer to its caller as well. > > Fixes: 3684aa7099e0 ('block-dev: enable writeback cgroup support') > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Looks fine. Would be much nicer to simply pass possible flags as an argument to mount_pseudo to avoid this whole dance.. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig