netdev - Re: [net-next 11/11] i40e: fix error return code in i40e

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Message-ID: <1383066330.2713.20.camel@joe-AO722>
Date:	Tue, 29 Oct 2013 10:05:30 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next  11/11] i40e: fix error return code in i40e_probe()

On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 05:02 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> Fix to return -ENOMEM in the memory alloc error handling
> case instead of 0, as done elsewhere in this function.

trivial note:

> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
[]
> @@ -7204,8 +7204,10 @@ static int i40e_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
>  	 */
>  	len = sizeof(struct i40e_vsi *) * pf->hw.func_caps.num_vsis;
>  	pf->vsi = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
> -	if (!pf->vsi)
> +	if (!pf->vsi) {
> +		err = -ENOMEM;
>  		goto err_switch_setup;
> +	}

This might be better as:

	pf->vsi = kcalloc(pf->hw.func_caps.num_vsis, struct i40e_vsi *),
			  GFP_KERNEL);

and removing the now unused u32 len; declaration.


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