[PATCH 01/31] blkcg: fix error return path in blkg_create()

[Tejun Heo]

In blkg_create(), after lookup of parent fails, the control jumps to
error path with the error code encoded into @blkg.  The error path
doesn't use @blkg for the return value.  It returns ERR_PTR(ret).
Make lookup fail path set @ret instead of @blkg.

Note that the parent lookup is guaranteed to succeed at that point and
the condition check is purely for sanity and triggers WARN when fails.
As such, I don't think it's necessary to mark it for -stable.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 block/blk-cgroup.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-cgroup.c b/block/blk-cgroup.c
index b2b9837..0ab211a 100644
--- a/block/blk-cgroup.c
+++ b/block/blk-cgroup.c
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ static struct blkcg_gq *blkg_create(struct blkcg *blkcg,
 	if (blkcg_parent(blkcg)) {
 		blkg->parent = __blkg_lookup(blkcg_parent(blkcg), q, false);
 		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!blkg->parent)) {
-			blkg = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+			ret = -EINVAL;
 			goto err_put_css;
 		}
 		blkg_get(blkg->parent);
-- 
1.8.1.4

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