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Date:	Tue, 29 Oct 2013 18:57:22 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	joe@...ches.com
Cc:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next 11/11] i40e: fix error return code in i40e_probe()

From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 10:05:30 -0700

> On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 05:02 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
>> Fix to return -ENOMEM in the memory alloc error handling
>> case instead of 0, as done elsewhere in this function.
> 
> trivial note:
> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
> []
>> @@ -7204,8 +7204,10 @@ static int i40e_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
>>  	 */
>>  	len = sizeof(struct i40e_vsi *) * pf->hw.func_caps.num_vsis;
>>  	pf->vsi = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
>> -	if (!pf->vsi)
>> +	if (!pf->vsi) {
>> +		err = -ENOMEM;
>>  		goto err_switch_setup;
>> +	}
> 
> This might be better as:
> 
> 	pf->vsi = kcalloc(pf->hw.func_caps.num_vsis, struct i40e_vsi *),
> 			  GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> and removing the now unused u32 len; declaration.

Agreed but that's a follow-on patch rather than something to block this
pull request.
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