linux-kernel - [PATCH] lib/genalloc: Fix NULL vs IS

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Message-Id: <20211211144957.31381-1-linmq006@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 11 Dec 2021 14:49:56 +0000
From:   Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@...il.com>
To:     unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)
Cc:     linmq006@...il.com, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] lib/genalloc: Fix NULL vs IS_ERR() checking

The devm_gen_pool_create() function does not return NULL. It
returns error pointers.

Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@...il.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/vbox_main.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/vbox_main.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/vbox_main.c
index f28779715ccd..c9e8b3a63c62 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/vbox_main.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/vbox_main.c
@@ -127,8 +127,8 @@ int vbox_hw_init(struct vbox_private *vbox)
 	/* Create guest-heap mem-pool use 2^4 = 16 byte chunks */
 	vbox->guest_pool = devm_gen_pool_create(vbox->ddev.dev, 4, -1,
 						"vboxvideo-accel");
-	if (!vbox->guest_pool)
-		return -ENOMEM;
+	if (IS_ERR(vbox->guest_pool))
+		return PTR_ERR(vbox->guest_pool);
 
 	ret = gen_pool_add_virt(vbox->guest_pool,
 				(unsigned long)vbox->guest_heap,
-- 
2.17.1