Re: [PATCH -next] UNRPC: Return specific error code on kmalloc failure

From: J. Bruce Fields
Date: Thu Sep 23 2021 - 16:05:11 EST


On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 05:33:24PM +0800, Yang Li wrote:
> Although the callers of this function only care about whether the
> return value is null or not, we should still give a rigorous
> error code.

Eh, I'm not sure I understand why this is important but, OK,
applying.--b.

>
> Smatch tool warning:
> net/sunrpc/auth_gss/svcauth_gss.c:784 gss_write_verf() warn: returning
> -1 instead of -ENOMEM is sloppy
>
> No functional change, just more standardized.
>
> Reported-by: Abaci Robot <abaci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yang Li <yang.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/sunrpc/auth_gss/svcauth_gss.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/svcauth_gss.c b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/svcauth_gss.c
> index 3e776e3..7dba6a9 100644
> --- a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/svcauth_gss.c
> +++ b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/svcauth_gss.c
> @@ -781,7 +781,7 @@ static inline u32 round_up_to_quad(u32 i)
> svc_putnl(rqstp->rq_res.head, RPC_AUTH_GSS);
> xdr_seq = kmalloc(4, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!xdr_seq)
> - return -1;
> + return -ENOMEM;
> *xdr_seq = htonl(seq);
>
> iov.iov_base = xdr_seq;
> --
> 1.8.3.1