Re: kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c:994 kho_preserve_vmalloc() warn: missing error code 'err'

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:58:20 +0300 Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org> wrote:

> Hi Pasha,
> 
> First bad commit (maybe != root cause):
> 
> tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
> head:   6c790212c588fddeb0d852f2790840753bb604b1
> commit: 48a1b2321d763b5edeaf20bd4576d8c4b5df772b liveupdate: kho: move to kernel/liveupdate
> config: x86_64-randconfig-r071-20260121 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20260121/202601211636.IRaejjdw-lkp@intel.com/config)
> compiler: clang version 20.1.8 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project 87f0227cb60147a26a1eeb4fb06e3b505e9c7261)
> rustc: rustc 1.88.0 (6b00bc388 2025-06-23)
> smatch version: v0.5.0-8985-g2614ff1a
> 
> If you fix the issue in a separate patch/commit (i.e. not just a new version of
> the same patch/commit), kindly add following tags
> | Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
> | Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
> | Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202601211636.IRaejjdw-lkp@intel.com/
> 
> smatch warnings:
> kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c:994 kho_preserve_vmalloc() warn: missing error code 'err'

Indeed, thanks.


From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: kho: kho_preserve_vmalloc(): don't return 0 when ENOMEM
Date: Wed Jan 21 12:36:17 PM PST 2026

kho_preserve_vmalloc() should return -ENOMEM when new_vmalloc_chunk()
fails.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202601211636.IRaejjdw-lkp@intel.com/
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c~a
+++ a/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c
@@ -1011,8 +1011,10 @@ int kho_preserve_vmalloc(void *ptr, stru
 		chunk->phys[idx++] = phys;
 		if (idx == ARRAY_SIZE(chunk->phys)) {
 			chunk = new_vmalloc_chunk(chunk);
-			if (!chunk)
+			if (!chunk) {
+				err = -ENOMEM;
 				goto err_free;
+			}
 			idx = 0;
 		}
 	}
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