Re: [PATCH] mm/demotion: Fix NULL vs IS_ERR checking in memory_tier_init

From: Huang, Ying
Date: Wed Nov 09 2022 - 22:10:27 EST


Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> The alloc_memory_type() function return error pointers on error
> instead of NULL.
> Use IS_ERR() to check the return value to fix this.
>
> Fixes: 7b88bda3761b ("mm/demotion/dax/kmem: set node's abstract distance to MEMTIER_DEFAULT_DAX_ADISTANCE")
> Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> mm/memory-tiers.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memory-tiers.c b/mm/memory-tiers.c
> index fa8c9d07f9ce..ac0dae9e54bf 100644
> --- a/mm/memory-tiers.c
> +++ b/mm/memory-tiers.c
> @@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ static int __init memory_tier_init(void)
> * than default DRAM tier.
> */
> default_dram_type = alloc_memory_type(MEMTIER_ADISTANCE_DRAM);
> - if (!default_dram_type)
> + if (IS_ERR(default_dram_type))
> panic("%s() failed to allocate default DRAM tier\n", __func__);
>
> /*