linux-kernel - [PATCH -next] rcutorture: Fix error return code in rcu_perf

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Date:	Mon, 13 Jun 2016 15:20:39 +0000
From:	weiyj_lk@....com
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>
Cc:	Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH -next] rcutorture: Fix error return code in rcu_perf_init()

From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn>

Fix to return a negative error code -ENOMEM from kcalloc() error
handling case instead of 0, as done elsewhere in this function.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn>
---
 kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c b/kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c
index 7b2dbdf..d38ab08 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c
@@ -638,8 +638,10 @@ rcu_perf_init(void)
 		writer_durations[i] =
 			kcalloc(MAX_MEAS, sizeof(*writer_durations[i]),
 				GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (!writer_durations[i])
+		if (!writer_durations[i]) {
+			firsterr = -ENOMEM;
 			goto unwind;
+		}
 		firsterr = torture_create_kthread(rcu_perf_writer, (void *)i,
 						  writer_tasks[i]);
 		if (firsterr)