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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
parent982caaa1150479f022003390cd72a1941663d211 (diff)
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>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c2
-rw-r--r--drivers/vhost/vhost.c2
-rw-r--r--kernel/vhost_task.c4
3 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
index d4ac4a1f8b81..18ca1ea6dc24 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
@@ -7471,7 +7471,7 @@ 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 9ac25d08f473..63612faeab72 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 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;