ACK: [PATCH SRU Bionic] UBUNTU: SAUCE: mlxsw: Add missmerged ERR_PTR hunk

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Thu Jul 9 15:06:15 UTC 2020


Thanks for fixing it, Stefan!

Acked-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>

 -Kamal

On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 11:55:41AM +0200, Stefan Bader wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1877461
> 
> While backporting this stable patch to Ubuntu 18.04/Bionic,
> a hunk went missing which causes mlxsw_afa_block_create() to
> return NULL still in some cases.
> 
> Fixes: 2b8b72daf074 ("mlxsw: Fix some IS_ERR() vs NULL bugs")
> Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum at oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core_acl_flex_actions.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core_acl_flex_actions.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core_acl_flex_actions.c
> index a29ae4cd3187..7544fbcc3283 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core_acl_flex_actions.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core_acl_flex_actions.c
> @@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ struct mlxsw_afa_block *mlxsw_afa_block_create(struct mlxsw_afa *mlxsw_afa)
>  
>  	block = kzalloc(sizeof(*block), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!block)
> -		return NULL;
> +		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>  	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&block->fwd_entry_ref_list);
>  	block->afa = mlxsw_afa;
>  
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 
> 
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