On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 07:52:25PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
From: Stefano Garzarella <sgarz...@redhat.com>[ Upstream commit fec0abf52609c20279243699d08b660c142ce0aa ] Commit cb380909ae3b ("vhost: return task creation error instead of NULL") changed the return value of vhost_task_create(), but did not update the documentation. Reflect the change in the documentation: on an error, vhost_task_create() returns an ERR_PTR() and no longer NULL. Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarz...@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20250327124435.142831-1-sgarz...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sas...@kernel.org> --- kernel/vhost_task.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
It looks like 6.6 doesn't contain commit cb380909ae3b ("vhost: return task creation error instead of NULL") so I think we should not backport this.
BTW, this is just a fix for a comment, so not a big issue if we backport or not.
Thanks, Stefano
diff --git a/kernel/vhost_task.c b/kernel/vhost_task.c index 8800f5acc0071..0e4455742190c 100644 --- a/kernel/vhost_task.c +++ b/kernel/vhost_task.c @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_task_stop); * @arg: data to be passed to fn and handled_kill * @name: the thread's name * - * This returns a specialized task for use by the vhost layer or NULL on + * This returns a specialized task for use by the vhost layer or ERR_PTR() on * failure. The returned task is inactive, and the caller must fire it up * through vhost_task_start(). */ -- 2.39.5
