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authorKeith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>2025-02-27 15:06:30 -0800
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2025-03-01 02:52:52 -0500
commitcb380909ae3b1ebf14d6a455a4f92d7916d790cb (patch)
treedd3d246e73d00711c6c1ed0fc6a2cce1a73c6c6d /kernel
parentKVM: nVMX: Process events on nested VM-Exit if injectable IRQ or NMI is pending (diff)
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vhost: return task creation error instead of NULL
Lets callers distinguish why the vhost task creation failed. No one currently cares why it failed, so no real runtime change from this patch, but that will not be the case for long. Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org> Message-ID: <20250227230631.303431-2-kbusch@meta.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/vhost_task.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/vhost_task.c b/kernel/vhost_task.c
index 8800f5acc007..2ef2e1b80091 100644
--- a/kernel/vhost_task.c
+++ b/kernel/vhost_task.c
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ struct vhost_task *vhost_task_create(bool (*fn)(void *),
vtsk = kzalloc(sizeof(*vtsk), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!vtsk)
- return NULL;
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
init_completion(&vtsk->exited);
mutex_init(&vtsk->exit_mutex);
vtsk->data = arg;
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ struct vhost_task *vhost_task_create(bool (*fn)(void *),
tsk = copy_process(NULL, 0, NUMA_NO_NODE, &args);
if (IS_ERR(tsk)) {
kfree(vtsk);
- return NULL;
+ return ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(tsk));
}
vtsk->task = tsk;