linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] staging: dgnc: check if kzalloc fails in dgnc_tty

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Date:	Tue, 7 Apr 2015 19:54:44 +0530
From:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:	Giedrius Statkevičius 
	<giedrius.statkevicius@...il.com>
Cc:	lidza.louina@...il.com, markh@...pro.net,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, driverdev-devel@...uxdriverproject.org,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	dan.carpenter@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] staging: dgnc: check if kzalloc fails in
 dgnc_tty_init()

On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 05:11:15PM +0300, Giedrius Statkevičius wrote:
> If one of the allocations of memory for storing a channel information struct
> fails then free all the successful allocations and return -ENOMEM that gets
> propogated to the pci layer.  Also, remove a bogus skipping in the next part of
> the initiation if a previous memory allocation failed because we won't execute
> that if any of the allocations failed. Next, remove the misleading comment that
> allocation could happen elsewhere. Finally, remove all (except in the ioctl
> which can try to get information about a board that failed to probe) checks if
> ->channels[foo] is NULL or not because probe failing if we can't allocate enough
> memory means that this scenario isn't possible.

i think now it became too many changes for a single patch..

regards
sudip


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