[PATCH v2 002/127] smb: smbdirect: introduce SMBDIRECT_DEBUG_ERR_PTR() helper

Stefan Metzmacher metze at samba.org
Wed Oct 29 13:19:40 UTC 2025


This can be used like this:

  int err = somefunc();
  pr_warn("err=%1pe\n", SMBDIRECT_DEBUG_ERR_PTR(err));

Cc: Steve French <smfrench at gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Talpey <tom at talpey.com>
Cc: Long Li <longli at microsoft.com>
Cc: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon at kernel.org>
Cc: linux-cifs at vger.kernel.org
Cc: samba-technical at lists.samba.org
Signed-off-by: Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
---
 fs/smb/common/smbdirect/smbdirect_socket.h | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/smb/common/smbdirect/smbdirect_socket.h b/fs/smb/common/smbdirect/smbdirect_socket.h
index ee5a90d691c8..611986827a5e 100644
--- a/fs/smb/common/smbdirect/smbdirect_socket.h
+++ b/fs/smb/common/smbdirect/smbdirect_socket.h
@@ -74,6 +74,19 @@ const char *smbdirect_socket_status_string(enum smbdirect_socket_status status)
 	return "<unknown>";
 }
 
+/*
+ * This can be used with %1pe to print errors as strings or '0'
+ * And it avoids warnings like: warn: passing zero to 'ERR_PTR'
+ * from smatch -p=kernel --pedantic
+ */
+static __always_inline
+const void * __must_check SMBDIRECT_DEBUG_ERR_PTR(long error)
+{
+	if (error == 0)
+		return NULL;
+	return ERR_PTR(error);
+}
+
 enum smbdirect_keepalive_status {
 	SMBDIRECT_KEEPALIVE_NONE,
 	SMBDIRECT_KEEPALIVE_PENDING,
-- 
2.43.0




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