Re: [PATCH 1/1] infiniband: hw: cxgb4: set errno on failure

[Doug Ledford]

On 12/3/2016 8:04 AM, Pan Bian wrote:
> From: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@xxxxxxx>
> 
> In function c4iw_rdev_open(), the value of return variable err should be
> negative on errors. However, when the call to __get_free_page() returns
> a NULL pointer, its value is not set to "-ENOMEM" and keeps 0. 0 means
> no error. And thus, the behavior of its caller may be misled. This patch
> fixes the bug.
> 
> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188821
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/device.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/device.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/device.c
> index 93e3d27..b99dc9e 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/device.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/device.c
> @@ -828,8 +828,10 @@ static int c4iw_rdev_open(struct c4iw_rdev *rdev)
>  	}
>  	rdev->status_page = (struct t4_dev_status_page *)
>  			    __get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
> -	if (!rdev->status_page)
> +	if (!rdev->status_page) {
> +		err = -ENOMEM;
>  		goto destroy_ocqp_pool;
> +	}
>  	rdev->status_page->qp_start = rdev->lldi.vr->qp.start;
>  	rdev->status_page->qp_size = rdev->lldi.vr->qp.size;
>  	rdev->status_page->cq_start = rdev->lldi.vr->cq.start;
> 

This fix was previously submitted by Wei Yongjun.

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