linux-kernel - Re: [patch] md/raid0: check for create_strip

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Date:	Wed, 13 Apr 2016 20:53:57 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>
Cc:	Krzysztof Wojcik <krzysztof.wojcik@...el.com>,
	linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] md/raid0: check for create_strip_zones() errors

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 10:02:40AM -0700, Shaohua Li wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 09:46:45AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > My static checker complains that if create_strip_zones() fails then we
> > use "priv_conf" without initializing it.  Fix this by checking for
> > failure.
> 
> It's more convenient setting '*private_conf = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);' at the
> begining of create_strip_zones() when it returns -ENOMEM. create_strip_zones
> already sets private_conf correctly in other cases.
> 

Yeah.  I'll send v2.

regards,
dan carpenter