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Subject[PATCH] fixup! vhost: extend memory regions allocation to vmalloc
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callers of vhost_kvzalloc() expect the same behaviour on
allocation error as from kmalloc/vmalloc i.e. NULL return
value. So just return vzmalloc() returned value instead of
returning ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM)

issue introduced by
4de7255f7d2be5e51664c6ac6011ffd6e5463571 in vhost-next tree

Spotted-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Suggested-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
---
drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 5 +----
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index a9fe859..3702487 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -683,11 +683,8 @@ static void *vhost_kvzalloc(unsigned long size)
{
void *n = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_REPEAT);

- if (!n) {
+ if (!n)
n = vzalloc(size);
- if (!n)
- return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
- }
return n;
}

--
1.8.3.1


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