[RFC PATCH v4 10/12] dm: Cleanup alloc_dax() error handling

From: Mathieu Desnoyers
Date: Fri Feb 02 2024 - 16:05:53 EST


Now that alloc_dax() returns ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP) rather than NULL,
the callers do not have to handle NULL return values anymore.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-cxl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: nvdimm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
drivers/md/dm.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.c b/drivers/md/dm.c
index 2fc22cae9089..acdc00bc05be 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm.c
@@ -2124,8 +2124,8 @@ static struct mapped_device *alloc_dev(int minor)
sprintf(md->disk->disk_name, "dm-%d", minor);

dax_dev = alloc_dax(md, &dm_dax_ops);
- if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(dax_dev)) {
- if (IS_ERR(dax_dev) && PTR_ERR(dax_dev) != -EOPNOTSUPP)
+ if (IS_ERR(dax_dev)) {
+ if (PTR_ERR(dax_dev) != -EOPNOTSUPP)
goto bad;
} else {
set_dax_nocache(dax_dev);
--
2.39.2