From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Boaz Harrosh Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:31:44 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch] scsi/osd: checking NULL instead of ERR_PTR() Message-Id: <4CE8F510.3090801@panasas.com> List-Id: References: <20101112043146.GC3533@bicker> <4CDFE6A9.10704@panasas.com> In-Reply-To: <4CDFE6A9.10704@panasas.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: Dan Carpenter , Benny Halevy , osd-dev@open-osd.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org On 11/14/2010 03:39 PM, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > On 11/12/2010 06:31 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote: >> bio_map_kern() returns ERR_PTRs on failure and never returns NULL. >> >> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter >> > > Acked-by: Boaz Harrosh > James! Please submit this patch for scsi-rc-fixes. It is an important fix for code that went into this merge window. Thanks Boaz >> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_initiator.c b/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_initiator.c >> index 0433ea6..b798919 100644 >> --- a/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_initiator.c >> +++ b/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_initiator.c >> @@ -951,8 +951,8 @@ static int _osd_req_finalize_cdb_cont(struct osd_request *or, const u8 *cap_key) >> /* create a bio for continuation segment */ >> bio = bio_map_kern(req_q, or->cdb_cont.buff, or->cdb_cont.total_bytes, >> GFP_KERNEL); >> - if (unlikely(!bio)) >> - return -ENOMEM; >> + if (unlikely(IS_ERR(bio))) >> + return PTR_ERR(bio); >> >> bio->bi_rw |= REQ_WRITE; >> > > Wahoo, good catch, thanks! This is new code in 2.6.37-rc1. It should be pushed > for current Kernel. > > James: please apply to scsi-rc-fixes for the next round of fixes? > > Thanks > Boaz