zcomp_create() verifies the success of zcomp_strm_{multi,siggle}_create()
through comp->stream, which can potentially be pointing to memory that was
freed if these functions returned an error.

While at it, replace a 'ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM)' by a more generic
'ERR_PTR(error)' as in the future zcomp_strm_{multi,siggle}_create() could
return other error codes.  Function documentation updated accordingly.

Fixes: beca3ec71fe5 ("zram: add multi stream functionality")
Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.w...@gmail.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minc...@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriq...@canonical.com>
---

Changes since v2:
 * Renamed local variable 'ret' to 'error'
 * Usage of 'ERR_PTR(error)' to accommodate future error codes returned by
   zcomp_strm_{multi,siggle}_create
 (all suggested by Minchan)

Changes since v1:
 * Check zcomp_strm_{multi,siggle}_create() return code instead
   comp->stream (suggested by Sergey)

drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c | 12 +++++++-----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c b/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c
index 965d1afb0eaa..5cb13ca3a3ac 100644
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c
@@ -330,12 +330,14 @@ void zcomp_destroy(struct zcomp *comp)
  * allocate new zcomp and initialize it. return compressing
  * backend pointer or ERR_PTR if things went bad. ERR_PTR(-EINVAL)
  * if requested algorithm is not supported, ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) in
- * case of allocation error.
+ * case of allocation error, or any other error potentially
+ * returned by functions zcomp_strm_{multi,single}_create.
  */
 struct zcomp *zcomp_create(const char *compress, int max_strm)
 {
        struct zcomp *comp;
        struct zcomp_backend *backend;
+       int error;
 
        backend = find_backend(compress);
        if (!backend)
@@ -347,12 +349,12 @@ struct zcomp *zcomp_create(const char *compress, int 
max_strm)
 
        comp->backend = backend;
        if (max_strm > 1)
-               zcomp_strm_multi_create(comp, max_strm);
+               error = zcomp_strm_multi_create(comp, max_strm);
        else
-               zcomp_strm_single_create(comp);
-       if (!comp->stream) {
+               error = zcomp_strm_single_create(comp);
+       if (error) {
                kfree(comp);
-               return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+               return ERR_PTR(error);
        }
        return comp;
 }
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