In the function snic_probe() defined in file drivers/scsi/snic/snic_main.c, when the call to mempool_create_slab_pool() (at line 589) returns a NULL pointer, the control flow jumps to label "err_free_res", and returns variable ret. Because variable ret is checked at line 714, the value of ret must be 0 here. As a result, function snic_probe() returns 0 (indicates success) even if the call to mempool_create_slab_pool() fails.
There are other 2 similar bugs when the call to mempool_create_slab_pool() fail at lines 599 and 609. Though these errors may occur rarely, I think it may be better to set correct error codes (e.g. -ENOMEM) on failures. Codes related to these bugs are summarised as follows.

snic_probe @@ drivers/scsi/snic/snic_main.c
 360 static int
 361 snic_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
 362 {
         ...
 368     int ret, i;
         ...
 561     ret = snic_alloc_vnic_res(snic);
 562     if (ret) {
 563         SNIC_HOST_ERR(shost,
 564                   "Failed to alloc vNIC resources aborting. %d\n",
 565                   ret);
 566 
 567         goto err_clear_intr;
 568     }
         ...
         // Insert "ret = -ENOMEM;" ?
 589     pool = mempool_create_slab_pool(2,
 590                 snic_glob->req_cache[SNIC_REQ_CACHE_DFLT_SGL]);
 591     if (!pool) {
 592         SNIC_HOST_ERR(shost, "dflt sgl pool creation failed\n");
 593 
             // Bug (1): the value of ret is 0
 594         goto err_free_res;
 595     }
 596 
 597     snic->req_pool[SNIC_REQ_CACHE_DFLT_SGL] = pool;
 598 
 599     pool = mempool_create_slab_pool(2,
 600                 snic_glob->req_cache[SNIC_REQ_CACHE_MAX_SGL]);
 601     if (!pool) {
 602         SNIC_HOST_ERR(shost, "max sgl pool creation failed\n");
 603 
             // Bug (2): the value of ret is 0
 604         goto err_free_dflt_sgl_pool;
 605     }
 606 
 607     snic->req_pool[SNIC_REQ_CACHE_MAX_SGL] = pool;
 608 
 609     pool = mempool_create_slab_pool(2,
 610                 snic_glob->req_cache[SNIC_REQ_TM_CACHE]);
 611     if (!pool) {
 612         SNIC_HOST_ERR(shost, "snic tmreq info pool creation failed.\n");
 613 
             // Bug (3): the value of ret is 0
 614         goto err_free_max_sgl_pool;
 615     }
         ...
 701     return 0;
         ...
 733 err_free_max_sgl_pool:
 734     mempool_destroy(snic->req_pool[SNIC_REQ_CACHE_MAX_SGL]);
 735 
 736 err_free_dflt_sgl_pool:
 737     mempool_destroy(snic->req_pool[SNIC_REQ_CACHE_DFLT_SGL]);
 738 
 739 err_free_res:
 740     snic_free_vnic_res(snic);
 741 
 742 err_clear_intr:
 743     snic_clear_intr_mode(snic);
 744 
         ...
 772     return ret;
 773 } /* end of snic_probe */

Thanks very much!