p9_tag_alloc() is supposed to return error pointers, but we accidentally
return a NULL here.  It would cause a NULL dereference in the caller.

Fixes: 996d5b4db4b1 ("9p: Use a slab for allocating requests")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com>

diff --git a/net/9p/client.c b/net/9p/client.c
index 47fa6158a75a..5f23e18eecc0 100644
--- a/net/9p/client.c
+++ b/net/9p/client.c
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ p9_tag_alloc(struct p9_client *c, int8_t type, unsigned int 
max_size)
        int tag;
 
        if (!req)
-               return NULL;
+               return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
        if (p9_fcall_init(c, &req->tc, alloc_msize))
                goto free_req;

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