linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ALSA: hda: fix kstrdup return value

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Message-ID: <s5ha8uwl7no.wl-tiwai@suse.de>
Date:	Thu, 16 Jul 2015 12:27:07 +0200
From:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:	kernelpatch_update <kernelpatch_update@....com>
Cc:	perex@...ex.cz, david.henningsson@...onical.com,
	kailang@...ltek.com, hui.wang@...onical.com,
	alsa-devel@...a-project.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ALSA: hda: fix kstrdup return value

On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 03:04:10 +0200,
kernelpatch_update wrote:
> 
> In kstrdup we should return -ENOMEM when it reports an 
> memory allocation failure, while the -ENODEV is referred
> to a failure in finding the cpu node in the device tree.
> 
> Signed-off-by: kernelpatch_update <kernelpatch_update@....com>

Thanks, applied now.


Takashi

> ---
>  sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c b/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c
> index 5de3c5d..d78fa71 100644
> --- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c
> +++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c
> @@ -975,7 +975,7 @@ int snd_hda_codec_new(struct hda_bus *bus, struct snd_card *card,
>  	if (codec->bus->modelname) {
>  		codec->modelname = kstrdup(codec->bus->modelname, GFP_KERNEL);
>  		if (!codec->modelname) {
> -			err = -ENODEV;
> +			err = -ENOMEM;
>  			goto error;
>  		}
>  	}
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 
> 
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