linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] clk: sunxi-ng: Check kzalloc() for errors and cleanup error path

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Date:   Mon, 6 Feb 2017 14:48:25 -0800
From:   Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
To:     Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:     Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-clk@...r.kernel.org,
        Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clk: sunxi-ng: Check kzalloc() for errors and cleanup
 error path

On 02/06, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 03:00:50PM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > This kzalloc() could fail. Let's bail out with -ENOMEM here
> > instead of NULL dereferencing. That silences static checkers. We
> > should also cleanup on the error path even though this function
> > returning an error probably means the system won't boot.
> > 
> > Cc: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>
> > Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
> 
> Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
> 
> Can you apply it directly?
> 

Yep. Thanks.

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