linux-kernel - [PATCH] misc: vmw_vmci: return the correct errno code

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Date:   Sat, 19 Jun 2021 19:28:54 +0800
From:   angkery <angkery@....com>
To:     arnd@...db.de, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        anant.thazhemadam@...il.com
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Junlin Yang <yangjunlin@...ong.com>
Subject: [PATCH] misc: vmw_vmci: return the correct errno code

From: Junlin Yang <yangjunlin@...ong.com>

When kzalloc failed, should return -ENOMEM rather than -EINVAL.

Signed-off-by: Junlin Yang <yangjunlin@...ong.com>
---
 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c
index 26ff49f..c0b5e33 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ struct vmci_ctx *vmci_ctx_create(u32 cid, u32 priv_flags,
 	context = kzalloc(sizeof(*context), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!context) {
 		pr_warn("Failed to allocate memory for VMCI context\n");
-		error = -EINVAL;
+		error = -ENOMEM;
 		goto err_out;
 	}
 
-- 
1.9.1