[PATCHv3 1/2] vhost: return task creation error instead of NULL

Keith Busch
2025-02-27T23:06:45Z

From: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>

Lets callers distinguish why the vhost task creation failed. No one
currently cares why it failed, so no real runtime change from this
patch, but that will not be the case for long.

Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
---
arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 2 +-
drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 2 +-
kernel/vhost_task.c | 4 ++--
3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
index d4ac4a1f8b81b..18ca1ea6dc240 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
@@ -7471,7 +7471,7 @@ static void kvm_mmu_start_lpage_recovery(struct once *once)
kvm_nx_huge_page_recovery_worker_kill,
kvm, "kvm-nx-lpage-recovery");

- if (!nx_thread)
+ if (IS_ERR(nx_thread))
return;

vhost_task_start(nx_thread);
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index 9ac25d08f473e..63612faeab727 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ static struct vhost_worker *vhost_worker_create(struct vhost_dev *dev)

vtsk = vhost_task_create(vhost_run_work_list, vhost_worker_killed,
worker, name);
- if (!vtsk)
+ if (IS_ERR(vtsk))
goto free_worker;

mutex_init(&worker->mutex);
diff --git a/kernel/vhost_task.c b/kernel/vhost_task.c
index 8800f5acc0071..2ef2e1b800916 100644
--- a/kernel/vhost_task.c
+++ b/kernel/vhost_task.c
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ struct vhost_task *vhost_task_create(bool (*fn)(void *),

vtsk = kzalloc(sizeof(*vtsk), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!vtsk)
- return NULL;
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
init_completion(&vtsk->exited);
mutex_init(&vtsk->exit_mutex);
vtsk->data = arg;
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ struct vhost_task *vhost_task_create(bool (*fn)(void *),
tsk = copy_process(NULL, 0, NUMA_NO_NODE, &args);
if (IS_ERR(tsk)) {
kfree(vtsk);
- return NULL;
+ return ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(tsk));
}

vtsk->task = tsk;
--
2.43.5