On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 07:52:25PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
From: Stefano Garzarella
[ Upstream commit fec0abf52609c20279243699d08b660c142ce0aa ]
Commit cb380909ae3b ("vhost: return task creation error instead of NULL")
changed the return value of vhost_task_create(), but did not update the
documentation.
Reflect the change in the documentation: on an error, vhost_task_create()
returns an ERR_PTR() and no longer NULL.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin
---
kernel/vhost_task.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
It looks like 6.6 doesn't contain commit cb380909ae3b ("vhost: return
task creation error instead of NULL") so I think we should not backport
this.
BTW, this is just a fix for a comment, so not a big issue if we backport
or not.
Thanks,
Stefano
diff --git a/kernel/vhost_task.c b/kernel/vhost_task.c
index 8800f5acc0071..0e4455742190c 100644
--- a/kernel/vhost_task.c
+++ b/kernel/vhost_task.c
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_task_stop);
* @arg: data to be passed to fn and handled_kill
* @name: the thread's name
*
- * This returns a specialized task for use by the vhost layer or NULL on
+ * This returns a specialized task for use by the vhost layer or ERR_PTR() on
* failure. The returned task is inactive, and the caller must fire it up
* through vhost_task_start().
*/
--
2.39.5
