Acked-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivan...@sgi.com>

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 03:48:19PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> If kzalloc() fails then gms is NULL and we are returning NULL, but the
> functions which called this function gru_register_mmu_notifier() are not
> expecting NULL as the return. They are expecting either a valid pointer
> or the error code in ERR_PTR.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <su...@vectorindia.org>
> ---
> 
> The patch at https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/6394911/ is not applied
> and not relevant now as gms is checked before gru_dbg. But the idea for
> this patch was obtained from that one.
> 
>  drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c | 20 ++++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c 
> b/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c
> index 757a8e9..e936d43 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c
> @@ -306,16 +306,16 @@ struct gru_mm_struct *gru_register_mmu_notifier(void)
>               atomic_inc(&gms->ms_refcnt);
>       } else {
>               gms = kzalloc(sizeof(*gms), GFP_KERNEL);
> -             if (gms) {
> -                     STAT(gms_alloc);
> -                     spin_lock_init(&gms->ms_asid_lock);
> -                     gms->ms_notifier.ops = &gru_mmuops;
> -                     atomic_set(&gms->ms_refcnt, 1);
> -                     init_waitqueue_head(&gms->ms_wait_queue);
> -                     err = __mmu_notifier_register(&gms->ms_notifier, 
> current->mm);
> -                     if (err)
> -                             goto error;
> -             }
> +             if (!gms)
> +                     return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> +             STAT(gms_alloc);
> +             spin_lock_init(&gms->ms_asid_lock);
> +             gms->ms_notifier.ops = &gru_mmuops;
> +             atomic_set(&gms->ms_refcnt, 1);
> +             init_waitqueue_head(&gms->ms_wait_queue);
> +             err = __mmu_notifier_register(&gms->ms_notifier, current->mm);
> +             if (err)
> +                     goto error;
>       }
>       if (gms)
>               gru_dbg(grudev, "gms %p, refcnt %d\n", gms,
> -- 
> 1.9.1
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