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Date:   Thu, 23 Mar 2023 03:37:19 -0400
From:   "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To:     Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] vhost_task: Fix vhost_task_create return value
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On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 01:56:05PM -0500, Mike Christie wrote:
> vhost_task_create is supposed to return the vhost_task or NULL on
> failure. This fixes it to return the correct value when the allocation
> of the struct fails.
> 
> Fixes: 77feab3c4156 ("vhost_task: Allow vhost layer to use copy_process") # mainline only
> Reported-by: syzbot+6b27b2d2aba1c80cc13b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>

Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

The affected patch is not upstream yet, right?
I don't know if the tree in question allows rebases - linux-next
does. So ideally it would be squashed to avoid issues during bisect.
Still it's error path so I guess not a tragedy even without squashing.

> ---
>  kernel/vhost_task.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/vhost_task.c b/kernel/vhost_task.c
> index 4b8aff160640..b7cbd66f889e 100644
> --- a/kernel/vhost_task.c
> +++ b/kernel/vhost_task.c
> @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ struct vhost_task *vhost_task_create(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg,
>  
>  	vtsk = kzalloc(sizeof(*vtsk), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!vtsk)
> -		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> +		return NULL;
>  	init_completion(&vtsk->exited);
>  	vtsk->data = arg;
>  	vtsk->fn = fn;
> -- 
> 2.25.1