The function mvs_task_prep() defined in file drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_sas.c returns 0 on success, or non-zero values on failures. It calls function pci_pool_alloc() and checks its return value against NULL (at line 794), and if the return value is NULL, the control flow jumps to label "err_out_tag", cleans allocated memory and returns variable rc. Function pci_pool_alloc() is called after the check of variable rc, so the value of rc must be 0. As a result, mvs_task_prep() will return 0 (indicates success) even the call to pci_pool_alloc() fails. I think it is better to assign "-ENOMEM" to rc when pci_pool_alloc() fails. Codes and comments related to this bug are summarised as follows.

mvs_task_prep @@ drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_sas.c
 711 static int mvs_task_prep(struct sas_task *task, struct mvs_info *mvi, int is_tmf,
 712                 struct mvs_tmf_task *tmf, int *pass)
 713 {
         ...
 719     int rc = 0;
         ...
 783     rc = mvs_tag_alloc(mvi, &tag);
 784     if (rc)
 785         goto err_out;
 786 
 787     slot = &mvi->slot_info[tag];
 788 
 789     task->lldd_task = NULL;
 790     slot->n_elem = n_elem;
 791     slot->slot_tag = tag;
 792 
 793     slot->buf = pci_pool_alloc(mvi->dma_pool, GFP_ATOMIC, &slot->buf_dma);
 794     if (!slot->buf)
             // insert "rc = -ENOMEM" here?
 795         goto err_out_tag;
         ...
 838     return rc;
 839 
 840 err_out_slot_buf:
 841     pci_pool_free(mvi->dma_pool, slot->buf, slot->buf_dma);
 842 err_out_tag:
 843     mvs_tag_free(mvi, tag);
 844 err_out:
 845 
 846     dev_printk(KERN_ERR, mvi->dev, "mvsas prep failed[%d]!\n", rc);
 847     if (!sas_protocol_ata(task->task_proto))
 848         if (n_elem)
 849             dma_unmap_sg(mvi->dev, task->scatter, n_elem,
 850                      task->data_dir);
 851 prep_out:
 852     return rc;
 853 }

Thanks very much!