linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv2] media: videobuf2: Return error after allocation failure

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Message-ID: <CAFqt6zbWPn4H6ArYEecou0Ri79a6hQcYcBo8ZrjPfkxFJUV-UQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 11 Feb 2019 07:42:47 +0530
From:   Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@...il.com>
To:     pawel@...iak.com, Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>, mchehab@...nel.org,
        Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas@...fresne.ca>
Cc:     linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] media: videobuf2: Return error after allocation failure

On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 8:27 PM Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@...il.com> wrote:
>
> There is no point to continuing assignment after memory allocation
> failed, rather throw error immediately.
>
> Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@...il.com>

Any comment on this patch ?

> ---
> v1 -> v2:
>         Corrected typo in change log.
>
>  drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-vmalloc.c | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-vmalloc.c b/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-vmalloc.c
> index 6dfbd5b..d3f71e2 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-vmalloc.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-vmalloc.c
> @@ -46,16 +46,16 @@ static void *vb2_vmalloc_alloc(struct device *dev, unsigned long attrs,
>
>         buf->size = size;
>         buf->vaddr = vmalloc_user(buf->size);
> -       buf->dma_dir = dma_dir;
> -       buf->handler.refcount = &buf->refcount;
> -       buf->handler.put = vb2_vmalloc_put;
> -       buf->handler.arg = buf;
>
>         if (!buf->vaddr) {
>                 pr_debug("vmalloc of size %ld failed\n", buf->size);
>                 kfree(buf);
>                 return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>         }
> +       buf->dma_dir = dma_dir;
> +       buf->handler.refcount = &buf->refcount;
> +       buf->handler.put = vb2_vmalloc_put;
> +       buf->handler.arg = buf;
>
>         refcount_set(&buf->refcount, 1);
>         return buf;
> --
> 1.9.1
>