linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 14/14] rcutorture: Fix error return code in rcu_perf

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Message-Id: <1466028583-8780-14-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 15 Jun 2016 15:09:43 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	mingo@...nel.org, jiangshanlai@...il.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
	josh@...htriplett.org, tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org,
	rostedt@...dmis.org, dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
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	bobby.prani@...il.com, Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 14/14] 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>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 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 7b2dbdffd791..d38ab08a3fe7 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)
-- 
2.5.2