@@ -319,6 +319,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dax_alive);
* that any fault handlers or operations that might have seen
* dax_alive(), have completed. Any operations that start after
* synchronize_srcu() has run will abort upon seeing !dax_alive().
+ *
+ * Note, because alloc_dax() returns an ERR_PTR() on error, callers
+ * typically store its result into a local variable in order to check
+ * the result. Therefore, care must be taken to populate the struct
+ * device dax_dev field make sure the dax_dev is not leaked.
*/
void kill_dax(struct dax_device *dax_dev)
{
@@ -88,11 +88,7 @@ static inline void *dax_holder(struct da
static inline struct dax_device *alloc_dax(void *private,
const struct dax_operations *ops)
{
- /*
- * Callers should check IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DAX) to know if this
- * NULL is an error or expected.
- */
- return NULL;
+ return ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP);
}
static inline void put_dax(struct dax_device *dax_dev)
{
The quilt patch titled Subject: dax: alloc_dax() return ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP) for CONFIG_DAX=n has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was dax-alloc_dax-return-err_ptr-eopnotsupp-for-config_dax=n.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm ------------------------------------------------------ From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Subject: dax: alloc_dax() return ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP) for CONFIG_DAX=n Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 09:46:26 -0500 Change the return value from NULL to PTR_ERR(-EOPNOTSUPP) for CONFIG_DAX=n to be consistent with the fact that CONFIG_DAX=y never returns NULL. This is done in preparation for using cpu_dcache_is_aliasing() in a following change which will properly support architectures which detect data cache aliasing at runtime. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215144633.96437-3-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Fixes: 4e4ced93794a ("dax: Move mandatory ->zero_page_range() check in alloc_dax()") Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Cc: Michael Sclafani <dm-devel@lists.linux.dev> Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org> Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> --- drivers/dax/super.c | 5 +++++ include/linux/dax.h | 6 +----- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)