linux-kernel - [PATCH -mm] mm, vmalloc: Prompt the failure message before return

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Date:	Sat, 08 Jun 2013 16:40:04 +0800
From:	Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei.yes@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: [PATCH -mm] mm, vmalloc: Prompt the failure message before return

From: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@...fujitsu.com>

Use goto to jump to the fail label to give a failure message before
returning NULL. This makes the failure handling in this function
consistent.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@...fujitsu.com>
---
 mm/vmalloc.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 91a1047..9a0d711 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -1664,7 +1664,7 @@ void *__vmalloc_node_range(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
 
 	addr = __vmalloc_area_node(area, gfp_mask, prot, node, caller);
 	if (!addr)
-		return NULL;
+		goto fail;
 
 	/*
 	 * In this function, newly allocated vm_struct has VM_UNLIST flag.
-- 
1.7.1
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