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

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Date:	Tue, 15 Mar 2016 00:26:03 -0700
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Shaohua Li <shli@...com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] block-dev: checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR()

On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 03:05:46PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> This should be an IS_ERR() check.  mount_pseudo() returns error pointers
> and this function should return the error pointer to its caller as well.
> 
> Fixes: 3684aa7099e0 ('block-dev: enable writeback cgroup support')
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

Looks fine.  Would be much nicer to simply pass possible flags as an
argument to mount_pseudo to avoid this whole dance..

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>