On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 06:40:27PM -0700, Toshi Kani wrote:
> devm_memremap() returns an ERR_PTR() value in case of error.
> However, it returns NULL when memremap() failed.  This causes
> the caller, such as the pmem driver, to proceed and oops later.
> 
> Change devm_memremap() to return ERR_PTR(-ENXIO) when memremap()
> failed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.k...@hpe.com>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>

Yep, good catch.

Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwis...@linux.intel.com>

> ---
>  kernel/memremap.c |    4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/memremap.c b/kernel/memremap.c
> index 70ee377..3427cca 100644
> --- a/kernel/memremap.c
> +++ b/kernel/memremap.c
> @@ -136,8 +136,10 @@ void *devm_memremap(struct device *dev, resource_size_t 
> offset,
>       if (addr) {
>               *ptr = addr;
>               devres_add(dev, ptr);
> -     } else
> +     } else {
>               devres_free(ptr);
> +             return ERR_PTR(-ENXIO);
> +     }
>  
>       return addr;
>  }
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