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Message-ID: <20231118202207.16a60834@kernel.org>
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2023 20:22:07 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Louis Peens <louis.peens@...igine.com>
Cc: Denis Arefev <arefev@...mel.ru>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, oss-drivers@...igine.com,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
lvc-project@...uxtesting.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfp: flower: Added pointer check and continue.
On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 16:27:17 +0200 Louis Peens wrote:
> > acti_netdevs = kmalloc_array(entry->slave_cnt,
> > sizeof(*acti_netdevs), GFP_KERNEL);
> >
Unnecessary new line, please remove it.
There should be no empty lines between call and error check.
> > + if (!acti_netdevs) {
> > + schedule_delayed_work(&lag->work, NFP_FL_LAG_DELAY);
> > + continue;
> > + }
> > +
> Thanks for reporting this Denis, it definitely seems to be an oversight.
> Would you mind adding a 'nfp_flower_cmsg_warn' here as well, so that
> this case does not go undetected? Maybe something like "cannot
> allocate memory for group processing" can work.
There's a checkpatch check against printing warnings on allocation
failures. Kernel will complain loudly on OOM, anyway, there's no need
for a local print.
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