linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] md: Combine two kmalloc() calls into one in sb

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Date:   Fri, 9 Dec 2016 20:09:58 +0100
From:   Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@...tmail.fm>
To:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
        linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] md: Combine two kmalloc() calls into one in sb_equal()



On 09.12.2016 19:30, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 19:09:13 +0100
>
> The function "kmalloc" was called in one case by the function "sb_equal"
> without checking immediately if it failed.

Err, your patch actually *replaces* the check. So where did you get the 
idea from that it is not checked immediately?

[...]

> -	tmp1 = kmalloc(sizeof(*tmp1),GFP_KERNEL);
> -	tmp2 = kmalloc(sizeof(*tmp2),GFP_KERNEL);
> -
> -	if (!tmp1 || !tmp2) {
> -		ret = 0;
> -		goto abort;
> -	}

This is not immediately?



Bernd