linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] clk: sunxi-ng: Check kzalloc() for errors and cleanup error path

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Date:   Mon, 6 Feb 2017 11:51:20 +0100
From:   Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
To:     Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
Cc:     Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-clk@...r.kernel.org,
        Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clk: sunxi-ng: Check kzalloc() for errors and cleanup
 error path

On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 03:00:50PM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> This kzalloc() could fail. Let's bail out with -ENOMEM here
> instead of NULL dereferencing. That silences static checkers. We
> should also cleanup on the error path even though this function
> returning an error probably means the system won't boot.
> 
> Cc: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>
> Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>

Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>

Can you apply it directly?

Thanks,
Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
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