linux-kernel - Re: cxl: Fix memory allocation failure test

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Date:   Tue, 22 Nov 2016 11:34:19 +1100 (AEDT)
From:   Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@...erman.id.au>
To:     Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>,
        imunsie@....ibm.com, fbarrat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cxl: Fix memory allocation failure test

On Sun, 2016-10-30 at 19:35:57 UTC, Christophe Jaillet wrote:
> 'cxl_context_alloc()' does not return an error pointer. It is just a
> shortcut for a call to 'kzalloc' with 'sizeof(struct cxl_context)' as the
> size parameter.
> 
> So its return value should be compared with NULL.
> While fixing it, simplify a bit the code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@....ibm.com>
> Acked-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Acked-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/5cd4f5cec2374d2c09299211d2b357

cheers