linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] CAPI: return -ENOMEM when kmalloc failed

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Message-ID: <022e6eb0-2fc7-4115-b5b8-046084d845fe@lunn.ch>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 04:17:33 +0100
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Jiapeng Chong <jiapeng.chong@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc: isdn@...ux-pingi.de, ricardo@...liere.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Abaci Robot <abaci@...ux.alibaba.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CAPI: return -ENOMEM when kmalloc failed

On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 10:01:03AM +0800, Jiapeng Chong wrote:
> The driver is using -1 instead of the -ENOMEM defined macro to specify
> that a buffer allocation failed.
> 
> drivers/isdn/capi/capi.c:154 capiminor_add_ack() warn: returning -1 instead of -ENOMEM is sloppy.
> 
> Reported-by: Abaci Robot <abaci@...ux.alibaba.com>
> Closes: https://bugzilla.openanolis.cn/show_bug.cgi?id=8522
> Signed-off-by: Jiapeng Chong <jiapeng.chong@...ux.alibaba.com>

The patch itself looks reasonable. The caller only cares about is the
return code negative or not. So returning -ENOMEM or -1 makes no
difference.

Please take a look at:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/maintainer-netdev.html

You need to specify a tree you want this merged via.

If you consider this a fix, you need to add a Fixes: tag. However, i
don't see this patch meeting stable requirements.

If this is just normal development, net-next is closed at the moment
for the merge window. Please repost in two weeks time.

    Andrew