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authorTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2012-08-13 17:15:50 -0400
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2012-09-28 16:03:03 -0400
commitb3c54de6f82d01637796bcc1f667a45f3b32e814 (patch)
tree9b0e87f60b2815ca20ef47eceed6da0f16b799ef /fs/nfs/inode.c
parenta11a2bf4de5679fa0b63474c7d39bea2dac7d061 (diff)
NFS: Convert nfs_get_lock_context to return an ERR_PTR on failure
We want to be able to distinguish between allocation failures, and the case where the lock context is not needed (because there are no locks). Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/nfs/inode.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/nfs/inode.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nfs/inode.c b/fs/nfs/inode.c
index 9b47610338f5..b5e2913dff2d 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/inode.c
@@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ struct nfs_lock_context *nfs_get_lock_context(struct nfs_open_context *ctx)
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
new = kmalloc(sizeof(*new), GFP_KERNEL);
if (new == NULL)
- return NULL;
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
nfs_init_lock_context(new);
spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
res = __nfs_find_lock_context(ctx);