[PATCH 1/2] coresight: perf: deal with error condition properly

[Mathieu Poirier]

Function coresight_build_path() should return -ENOMEM when kzalloc
fails to allocated the requested memory.  That way callers can deal
with the error condition in a similar way.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poir...@linaro.org>
---
 drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c | 4 ++--
 drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c          | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c 
b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
index 98eb207684fa..2cd7c718198a 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ static void free_event_data(struct work_struct *work)
        }
 
        for_each_cpu(cpu, mask) {
-               if (event_data->path[cpu])
+               if (!(IS_ERR_OR_NULL(event_data->path[cpu])))
                        coresight_release_path(event_data->path[cpu]);
        }
 
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ static void *etm_setup_aux(int event_cpu, void **pages,
                 * referenced later when the path is actually needed.
                 */
                event_data->path[cpu] = coresight_build_path(csdev);
-               if (!event_data->path[cpu])
+               if (IS_ERR(event_data->path[cpu]))
                        goto err;
        }
 
diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c 
b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
index fcbedd3905e3..7bf00a0beb6f 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ struct list_head *coresight_build_path(struct 
coresight_device *csdev)
 
        path = kzalloc(sizeof(struct list_head), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!path)
-               return NULL;
+               return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
        INIT_LIST_HEAD(path);
 
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2.7.4