From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:24:14 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: memcgroup: return negative error code in mem_cgroup_create()
X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~22276
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2dda81ca31dc73e695ff8b83351f7aaefbef192a;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git

memcgroup: return negative error code in mem_cgroup_create()

Cgroup requires the subsystem to return negative error code on error in the
create method.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index bb4d7acfbca3..631002d085d1 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -1100,7 +1100,7 @@ mem_cgroup_create(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cont)
 		mem = kzalloc(sizeof(struct mem_cgroup), GFP_KERNEL);
 
 	if (mem == NULL)
-		return NULL;
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
 	res_counter_init(&mem->res);
 
@@ -1116,7 +1116,7 @@ free_out:
 		free_mem_cgroup_per_zone_info(mem, node);
 	if (cont->parent != NULL)
 		kfree(mem);
-	return NULL;
+	return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 }
 
 static void mem_cgroup_pre_destroy(struct cgroup_subsys *ss,