Re: sysfs backing store error path confusion

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 10:03:34AM -0600, Maneesh Soni wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 02:46:58AM -0600, Milton Miller wrote:
> > sysfs_new_dirent returns ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) if kmalloc fails but the callers
> > were expecting NULL.  
> > 
> > Compile & link tested.  (Yes, changing the callee would be a smaller change).
> > 
> 
> Thanks for spotting this. But as you said, I will prefer to change the callee.
> How about this patch? 
> 
> Andrew, Greg, please include this if found ok.
> 
> Thanks
> Maneesh
> 
> 
> 
> o sysfs_new_dirent to retrun NULL if kmalloc fails. Thanks to Milton Miller 
>   for spotting this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
> ---
> 
>  linux-2.6.10-rc1-bk12-maneesh/fs/sysfs/dir.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff -puN fs/sysfs/dir.c~fix-sysfs_new_dirent-return fs/sysfs/dir.c
> --- linux-2.6.10-rc1-bk12/fs/sysfs/dir.c~fix-sysfs_new_dirent-return	2004-11-02 08:38:57.000000000 -0600
> +++ linux-2.6.10-rc1-bk12-maneesh/fs/sysfs/dir.c	2004-11-02 09:17:18.000000000 -0600
> @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ static struct sysfs_dirent * sysfs_new_d
>  
>  	sd = kmalloc(sizeof(*sd), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!sd)
> -		return -ENOMEM;
> +		return NULL;

Actually, this needs to be a 0, not NULL, otherwise the compiler
complains with a warning.  I've fixed it up and applied it.

thanks,

greg k-h