[PATCH] block:Change the function, nvme_alloc_queue to use -ENOMEM for when failing memory allocations

Nicholas Krause xerofoify at gmail.com
Tue May 12 16:51:31 PDT 2015


This changes the function,nvme_alloc_queue to use the kernel code,
-ENOMEM for when failing to allocate the memory required for the
nvme_queue structure pointer,nvme in order to correctly return
to the caller the correct reason for this function's failing.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/block/nvme-core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/nvme-core.c b/drivers/block/nvme-core.c
index 85b8036..e2eac1e 100644
--- a/drivers/block/nvme-core.c
+++ b/drivers/block/nvme-core.c
@@ -1387,7 +1387,7 @@ static struct nvme_queue *nvme_alloc_queue(struct nvme_dev *dev, int qid,
 	struct device *dmadev = &dev->pci_dev->dev;
 	struct nvme_queue *nvmeq = kzalloc(sizeof(*nvmeq), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!nvmeq)
-		return NULL;
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	nvmeq->cqes = dma_zalloc_coherent(dmadev, CQ_SIZE(depth),
 					  &nvmeq->cq_dma_addr, GFP_KERNEL);
-- 
2.1.4




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