net: pcs: xpcs: fix error handling on failed to allocate memory

Drivers such as sja1105 and stmmac that call xpcs_create() expects an
error returned by the pcs-xpcs module, but this was not the case on
failed to allocate memory.

Fixed this by returning an -ENOMEM instead of a NULL pointer.

Fixes: 3ad1d171548e ("net: dsa: sja1105: migrate to xpcs for SGMII")
Signed-off-by: Wong Vee Khee <vee.khee.wong@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210810085812.1808466-1-vee.khee.wong@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

diff --git a/drivers/net/pcs/pcs-xpcs.c b/drivers/net/pcs/pcs-xpcs.c
index 63fda3f..4bd6133 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/pcs/pcs-xpcs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/pcs/pcs-xpcs.c
@@ -1089,7 +1089,7 @@ struct dw_xpcs *xpcs_create(struct mdio_device *mdiodev,
 
        xpcs = kzalloc(sizeof(*xpcs), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!xpcs)
-               return NULL;
+               return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
        xpcs->mdiodev = mdiodev;