From patchwork Thu Jan 9 12:05:00 2014 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Luis Henriques X-Patchwork-Id: 308752 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from huckleberry.canonical.com (huckleberry.canonical.com [91.189.94.19]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B3DE2C00BB for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2014 23:11:20 +1100 (EST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=huckleberry.canonical.com) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1W1ESC-0007da-2T; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 12:11:16 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1W1EM9-0004NT-O2 for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 12:05:01 +0000 Received: from bl20-130-143.dsl.telepac.pt ([2.81.130.143] helo=localhost) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1EM9-0001Zd-Gs; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 12:05:01 +0000 From: Luis Henriques To: Dan Carpenter Subject: [3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "libceph: create_singlethread_workqueue() doesn't return ERR_PTRs" has been added to staging queue Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 12:05:00 +0000 Message-Id: <1389269100-31998-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.3.2 X-Extended-Stable: 3.11 Cc: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com, Sage Weil X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled libceph: create_singlethread_workqueue() doesn't return ERR_PTRs to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Luis ------ From 9d29c02dddb73997460742c5a8b56fa891e2d084 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 08:58:59 +0300 Subject: libceph: create_singlethread_workqueue() doesn't return ERR_PTRs commit dbcae088fa660086bde6e10d63bb3c9264832d85 upstream. create_singlethread_workqueue() returns NULL on error, and it doesn't return ERR_PTRs. I tweaked the error handling a little to be consistent with earlier in the function. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Reviewed-by: Sage Weil Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques --- net/ceph/osd_client.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) -- 1.8.3.2 diff --git a/net/ceph/osd_client.c b/net/ceph/osd_client.c index 56f1fe5..0c49ec4 100644 --- a/net/ceph/osd_client.c +++ b/net/ceph/osd_client.c @@ -2257,12 +2257,10 @@ int ceph_osdc_init(struct ceph_osd_client *osdc, struct ceph_client *client) if (err < 0) goto out_msgpool; + err = -ENOMEM; osdc->notify_wq = create_singlethread_workqueue("ceph-watch-notify"); - if (IS_ERR(osdc->notify_wq)) { - err = PTR_ERR(osdc->notify_wq); - osdc->notify_wq = NULL; + if (!osdc->notify_wq) goto out_msgpool; - } return 0; out_msgpool: