linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: core: return -ENOMEM on ips_init

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Date:   Tue, 19 Oct 2021 07:49:41 -0400
From:   James Bottomley <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Jiapeng Chong <jiapeng.chong@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        aacraid@...rosemi.com
Cc:     martin.petersen@...cle.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: core: return -ENOMEM on ips_init_phase1()
 allocation failure

On Tue, 2021-10-19 at 18:50 +0800, Jiapeng Chong wrote:
> From: chongjiapeng <jiapeng.chong@...ux.alibaba.com>
> 
> Fixes the following smatch warning:
> 
> drivers/scsi/ips.c:6901 ips_init_phase1() warn: returning -1 instead
> of -ENOMEM is sloppy.

Really, like megaraid, it's not.  ips_init_phase1() returns either
Success or -1.  If it returns -1, that gets translated to -ENODEV so,
again, we'd lose this nuanced return completely.

James