linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/5] drivers/dma: Return -ENOMEM on memory allocation failure

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Date:	Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:11:07 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
To:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...ricsson.com>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/5] drivers/dma: Return -ENOMEM on memory allocation failure

From: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>

In this code, 0 is returned on memory allocation failure, even though other
failures return -ENOMEM or other similar values.

A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression ret;
expression x,e1,e2,e3;
@@

ret = 0
... when != ret = e1
*x = \(kmalloc\|kcalloc\|kzalloc\)(...)
... when != ret = e2
if (x == NULL) { ... when != ret = e3
  return ret;
}
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>

---
 drivers/dma/coh901318.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/coh901318.c b/drivers/dma/coh901318.c
index 557e227..6dd9488 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/coh901318.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/coh901318.c
@@ -1475,8 +1475,10 @@ static int __init coh901318_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		       pdata->max_channels *
 		       sizeof(struct coh901318_chan),
 		       GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!base)
+	if (!base) {
+		err = -ENOMEM;
 		goto err_alloc_coh_dma_channels;
+	}
 
 	base->chans = ((void *)base) + ALIGN(sizeof(struct coh901318_base), 4);
 
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