[PATCH net-next 1/1] net: pcs: xpcs: fix error handling on failed to allocate memory
From: Wong Vee Khee <hidden>
Date: 2021-08-10 08:53:00
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ethernet phy library, networking drivers, synopsys designware ethernet xpcs driver, the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Lunn, Heiner Kallweit, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
Drivers such as sja1105 and stmmac that call xpcs_create() expects an error returned by the pcs-xpcs module, but this was not the case on failed to allocate memory. Fixed this by returning an -ENOMEM instead of a NULL pointer. Cc: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Wong Vee Khee <redacted> --- drivers/net/pcs/pcs-xpcs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/pcs/pcs-xpcs.c b/drivers/net/pcs/pcs-xpcs.c
index 63fda3fc40aa..4bd61339823c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/pcs/pcs-xpcs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/pcs/pcs-xpcs.c@@ -1089,7 +1089,7 @@ struct dw_xpcs *xpcs_create(struct mdio_device *mdiodev, xpcs = kzalloc(sizeof(*xpcs), GFP_KERNEL); if (!xpcs) - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); xpcs->mdiodev = mdiodev;
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