linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] net: irda: set error code on failures

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Message-Id: <20161205.145328.1580734576600372225.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 05 Dec 2016 14:53:28 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     bianpan201603@....com
Cc:     samuel@...tiz.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, bianpan2016@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] net: irda: set error code on failures

From: Pan Bian <bianpan201603@....com>
Date: Sun,  4 Dec 2016 13:27:40 +0800

> From: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@....com>
> 
> When the calls to kzalloc() fail, the value of return variable ret may
> be 0. 0 means success in this context. This patch fixes the bug,
> assigning "-ENOMEM" to ret before calling kzalloc().
> 
> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188971
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@....com>

Applied.