netdev - Re: [PATCH 05/10] drivers:net: return -ENOMEM on allocation failure.

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Date:   Wed, 13 Sep 2017 14:09:09 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Allen Pais <allen.lkml@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@...adcom.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, megaraidlinux.pdl@...adcom.com,
        target-devel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/10] drivers:net: return -ENOMEM on allocation failure.

On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 01:02:14PM +0530, Allen Pais wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Allen Pais <allen.lkml@...il.com>

Hi Allen

Although correct, if you look higher up the call chain, this appears
to be not so useful.

rlb_initialize() is only called by bond_alb_initialize(), and it
propagates the -1. That is only called by bond_open() with:

	if (bond_alb_initialize(bond, (BOND_MODE(bond) == BOND_MODE_ALB)))
		return -ENOMEM;

So you might want to also modify this code, to return the return
value, rather than use the hard coded ENOMEM.

Since you code is OK as far as it goes:

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>

    Andrew