On Mon, 2 Jun 2025 at 16:04, Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
6.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
It seems that commit cb380909ae3b ("vhost: return task creation error instead of NULL") is not backported to 6.6, so we can skip this patch. BTW it's just a fix in a comment, so if it's too late, it should not be a big issue.
Just for my understanding, next time should I add a Fixes tag in this case, also if the patch doesn't touch code?
Thanks, Stefano
From: Stefano Garzarella sgarzare@redhat.com
[ Upstream commit fec0abf52609c20279243699d08b660c142ce0aa ]
Commit cb380909ae3b ("vhost: return task creation error instead of NULL") changed the return value of vhost_task_create(), but did not update the documentation.
Reflect the change in the documentation: on an error, vhost_task_create() returns an ERR_PTR() and no longer NULL.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella sgarzare@redhat.com Message-Id: 20250327124435.142831-1-sgarzare@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin mst@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org
kernel/vhost_task.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/vhost_task.c b/kernel/vhost_task.c index 8800f5acc0071..0e4455742190c 100644 --- a/kernel/vhost_task.c +++ b/kernel/vhost_task.c @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_task_stop);
- @arg: data to be passed to fn and handled_kill
- @name: the thread's name
- This returns a specialized task for use by the vhost layer or NULL on
*/
- This returns a specialized task for use by the vhost layer or ERR_PTR() on
- failure. The returned task is inactive, and the caller must fire it up
- through vhost_task_start().
-- 2.39.5