p9_tag_alloc() is supposed to return error pointers, but we accidentally
return a NULL here. It would cause a NULL dereference in the caller.
Fixes: 996d5b4db4b1 ("9p: Use a slab for allocating requests")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
diff --git a/net/9p/client.c b/net/9p/client.c
index 47fa6158a75a..5f23e18eecc0 100644
--- a/net/9p/client.c
+++ b/net/9p/client.c
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ p9_tag_alloc(struct p9_client *c, int8_t type, unsigned int
max_size)
int tag;
if (!req)
- return NULL;
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
if (p9_fcall_init(c, &req->tc, alloc_msize))
goto free_req;