linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] lance: Return correct error code

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Message-ID: <CA+5yK5H1wc4qJ2mr511M2e05SQDpfeZhbTvsbLT+C+2nt1=2JA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 17 Feb 2016 19:54:05 +0530
From:	Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@...il.com>
To:	Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"Linux-Kernel@...r. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lance: Return correct error code

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 7:46 PM, Sergei Shtylyov
<sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> On 2/17/2016 4:35 PM, Amitoj Kaur Chawla wrote:
>
>> The return value of kzalloc on failure should be -ENOMEM and
>
>
>    kzalloc() returns NULL on failure! You need to clarify your patch
> description, so that it makes some sense.
>

Okay, thanks for the feedback. Will send v2.

Amitoj