From 50b19729ced72cfa8bb1c44fed9203f395f13991 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 09:22:20 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] IB/hfi1: checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR

__get_txreq() returns an ERR_PTR() but this checks for NULL so it would
oops on failure.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
---
 drivers/staging/rdma/hfi1/verbs.c | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rdma/hfi1/verbs.c b/drivers/staging/rdma/hfi1/verbs.c
index 53ac214315427..41bb59eb001c7 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rdma/hfi1/verbs.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rdma/hfi1/verbs.c
@@ -749,11 +749,13 @@ static inline struct verbs_txreq *get_txreq(struct hfi1_ibdev *dev,
 	struct verbs_txreq *tx;
 
 	tx = kmem_cache_alloc(dev->verbs_txreq_cache, GFP_ATOMIC);
-	if (!tx)
+	if (!tx) {
 		/* call slow path to get the lock */
 		tx =  __get_txreq(dev, qp);
-	if (tx)
-		tx->qp = qp;
+		if (IS_ERR(tx))
+			return tx;
+	}
+	tx->qp = qp;
 	return tx;
 }
 
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