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From: Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen@gmail.com>
To: Mugilraj Dhavachelvan <dmugil2000@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Karol Herbst <karolherbst@gmail.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/mm/kmmio: correctly handle kzalloc return
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 12:34:30 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201020123430.44968cb4@eldfell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201020084345.96823-1-dmugil2000@gmail.com>

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On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 14:13:44 +0530
Mugilraj Dhavachelvan <dmugil2000@gmail.com> wrote:

> Replacing return value -1 to error code
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mugilraj Dhavachelvan <dmugil2000@gmail.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/mm/kmmio.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/kmmio.c b/arch/x86/mm/kmmio.c
> index be020a7bc414..15430520c232 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/kmmio.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/kmmio.c
> @@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ static int add_kmmio_fault_page(unsigned long addr)
>  
>  	f = kzalloc(sizeof(*f), GFP_ATOMIC);
>  	if (!f)
> -		return -1;
> +		return -ENOMEN;
>  
>  	f->count = 1;
>  	f->addr = addr;

Hi,

did you even build-test this?

Why did you write this patch? What does it achieve?


Thanks,
pq

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      reply	other threads:[~2020-10-20  9:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-20  8:43 [PATCH] x86/mm/kmmio: correctly handle kzalloc return Mugilraj Dhavachelvan
2020-10-20  9:34 ` Pekka Paalanen [this message]

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