linux-kernel - [PATCH] nbd: Fix error handling

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Message-Id: <20161030042827.10160-1-christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Date:   Sun, 30 Oct 2016 05:28:27 +0100
From:   Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
To:     mpa@...gutronix.de, jbacik@...com, axboe@...com
Cc:     nbd-general@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
Subject: [PATCH] nbd: Fix error handling

'blk_mq_alloc_request()' returns an error pointer in case of error, not
NULL. So test it with IS_ERR.

Fixes: 	fd8383fd88a2 ("nbd: convert to blkmq")

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
---
 drivers/block/nbd.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c
index 19a16b2dbb91..7a1048755914 100644
--- a/drivers/block/nbd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c
@@ -599,7 +599,7 @@ static int __nbd_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, struct nbd_device *nbd,
 			return -EINVAL;
 
 		sreq = blk_mq_alloc_request(bdev_get_queue(bdev), WRITE, 0);
-		if (!sreq)
+		if (IS_ERR(sreq))
 			return -ENOMEM;
 
 		mutex_unlock(&nbd->tx_lock);
-- 
2.9.3