Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 2025-07-18
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[PATCH net-next] net/mlx5: Fix an IS_ERR() vs NULL bug in esw_qos_move_node()

From: Dan Carpenter <hidden>
Date: 2025-07-15 23:01:32
Also in: kernel-janitors, linux-rdma, lkml
Subsystem: mellanox mlx5 core vpi driver, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Saeed Mahameed, Leon Romanovsky, Tariq Toukan, Mark Bloch, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

The __esw_qos_alloc_node() function returns NULL on error.  It doesn't
return error pointers.  Update the error checking to match.

Fixes: 96619c485fa6 ("net/mlx5: Add support for setting tc-bw on nodes")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/qos.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/qos.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/qos.c
index e1cef8dd3b4d..91d863c8c152 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/qos.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/qos.c
@@ -1405,9 +1405,10 @@ esw_qos_move_node(struct mlx5_esw_sched_node *curr_node)
 
 	new_node = __esw_qos_alloc_node(curr_node->esw, curr_node->ix,
 					curr_node->type, NULL);
-	if (!IS_ERR(new_node))
-		esw_qos_nodes_set_parent(&curr_node->children, new_node);
+	if (!new_node)
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
+	esw_qos_nodes_set_parent(&curr_node->children, new_node);
 	return new_node;
 }
 
-- 
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