6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Keith Busch kbusch@kernel.org
[ Upstream commit cb380909ae3b1ebf14d6a455a4f92d7916d790cb ]
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 Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 2 +- drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 2 +- kernel/vhost_task.c | 4 ++-- 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c index 19c96278ba755..9242c0649adf1 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c @@ -7589,7 +7589,7 @@ static void kvm_mmu_start_lpage_recovery(struct once *once) kvm_nx_huge_page_recovery_worker_kill, kvm, "kvm-nx-lpage-recovery");
- if (!nx_thread) + if (IS_ERR(nx_thread)) return;
vhost_task_start(nx_thread); diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c index 9ac25d08f473e..63612faeab727 100644 --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c @@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ static struct vhost_worker *vhost_worker_create(struct vhost_dev *dev)
vtsk = vhost_task_create(vhost_run_work_list, vhost_worker_killed, worker, name); - if (!vtsk) + if (IS_ERR(vtsk)) goto free_worker;
mutex_init(&worker->mutex); diff --git a/kernel/vhost_task.c b/kernel/vhost_task.c index 8800f5acc0071..2ef2e1b800916 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;