Hi Marcin,

Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> writes:

quoted text
> Some codepaths call ERR_PTR with possibly 0 argument, which is not
> a valid errno and rely on conversion from 0 to NULL pointer.
> Add ERR_OR_0_PTR function which accepts errnos and 0 as an argument.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> ---
>  include/linux/err.h |    7 +++++++
>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/err.h b/include/linux/err.h
> index 7b5daa6..cdec8b6 100644
> --- a/include/linux/err.h
> +++ b/include/linux/err.h
> @@ -26,6 +26,13 @@ static inline void *__ERR_PTR(long error)
>  
>  #define ERR_PTR(error) (BUILD_BUG_ON(__builtin_constant_p(error) && !IS_ERR_VALUE(error)), __ERR_PTR(error))
>  
> +static inline void *__ERR_OR_0_PTR(long error)
> +{
> +	return (void *) error;
> +}
> +
> +#define ERR_OR_0_PTR(error) (BUILD_BUG_ON(__builtin_constant_p(error) && error && !IS_ERR_VALUE(error)), __ERR_OR_0_PTR(error))

ERR_OR_0_PTR could use __ERR_PTR() too.

And please break those lines ;)

	Hannes
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