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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c b/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c index d5919031ca8..5647d8fe1dc 100644 --- a/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c +++ b/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ #include <linux/kernel.h> #include <linux/string.h> +#include <linux/err.h> #include <linux/slab.h> #include <linux/wait.h> #include <linux/sched.h> @@ -319,9 +320,10 @@ void zcomp_destroy(struct zcomp *comp) /* * search available compressors for requested algorithm. - * allocate new zcomp and initialize it. return NULL - * if requested algorithm is not supported or in case - * of init error + * allocate new zcomp and initialize it. return compressing + * backend pointer or ERR_PTR if things went bad. ERR_PTR(-EINVAL) + * if requested algorithm is not supported, ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) in + * case of allocation error. */ struct zcomp *zcomp_create(const char *compress, int max_strm) { @@ -330,11 +332,11 @@ struct zcomp *zcomp_create(const char *compress, int max_strm) backend = find_backend(compress); if (!backend) - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); comp = kzalloc(sizeof(struct zcomp), GFP_KERNEL); if (!comp) - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); comp->backend = backend; if (max_strm > 1) @@ -343,7 +345,7 @@ struct zcomp *zcomp_create(const char *compress, int max_strm) zcomp_strm_single_create(comp); if (!comp->stream) { kfree(comp); - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); } return comp; } |