[PATCH] lib/genalloc: Fix NULL vs IS_ERR() checking

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 12/11/21 15:49, Miaoqian Lin wrote:
> The devm_gen_pool_create() function does not return NULL. It
> returns error pointers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006 at gmail.com>

This is already fixed in linux-next, see:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm-misc/commit/drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/vbox_main.c?id=cebbb5c46d0cb0615fd0c62dea9b44273d0a9780

Regards,

Hans


> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/vbox_main.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/vbox_main.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/vbox_main.c
> index f28779715ccd..c9e8b3a63c62 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/vbox_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/vbox_main.c
> @@ -127,8 +127,8 @@ int vbox_hw_init(struct vbox_private *vbox)
>  	/* Create guest-heap mem-pool use 2^4 = 16 byte chunks */
>  	vbox->guest_pool = devm_gen_pool_create(vbox->ddev.dev, 4, -1,
>  						"vboxvideo-accel");
> -	if (!vbox->guest_pool)
> -		return -ENOMEM;
> +	if (IS_ERR(vbox->guest_pool))
> +		return PTR_ERR(vbox->guest_pool);
>  
>  	ret = gen_pool_add_virt(vbox->guest_pool,
>  				(unsigned long)vbox->guest_heap,
>