linux-kernel - Re: [patch] aio: checking for NULL instead of IS

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Date:	Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:57:17 -0500
From:	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, linux-aio@...ck.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] aio: checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:49:40AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> alloc_anon_inode() returns an ERR_PTR(), it doesn't return NULL.
> 
> Fixes: 71ad7490c1f3 ('rework aio migrate pages to use aio fs')
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

Thanks for spotting this.

Acked-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>

		-ben

> diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
> index bf8d080..699f53e 100644
> --- a/fs/aio.c
> +++ b/fs/aio.c
> @@ -164,8 +164,8 @@ static struct file *aio_private_file(struct kioctx *ctx, loff_t nr_pages)
>  	struct file *file;
>  	struct path path;
>  	struct inode *inode = alloc_anon_inode(aio_mnt->mnt_sb);
> -	if (!inode)
> -		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> +	if (IS_ERR(inode))
> +		return ERR_CAST(inode);
>  
>  	inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &aio_ctx_aops;
>  	inode->i_mapping->private_data = ctx;

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