[PATCH 3/4] configfs: Correct error value returned by API config_item_set_name()

From: Zijun Hu
Date: Tue Apr 08 2025 - 09:28:02 EST


From: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>

kvasprintf() failure is often caused by memory allocation which has error
code -ENOMEM, but config_item_set_name() returns -EFAULT for the failure.

Fix by returning -ENOMEM instead of -EFAULT for the failure.

Signed-off-by: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/configfs/item.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/configfs/item.c b/fs/configfs/item.c
index 254170a82aa337d95cbfbdf1a2db1023db3a2907..c378b5cbf87d28387a509c3cabb93eccfb520c9c 100644
--- a/fs/configfs/item.c
+++ b/fs/configfs/item.c
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ int config_item_set_name(struct config_item *item, const char *fmt, ...)
name = kvasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, fmt, args);
va_end(args);
if (!name)
- return -EFAULT;
+ return -ENOMEM;
}

/* Free the old name, if necessary. */

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