linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] nfp: flower: Added pointer check and continue.

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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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