netdev - Re: [PATCH net 2/2] ice: Add check for kzalloc

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Date:   Wed, 11 Jan 2023 12:01:44 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>
Cc:     <davem@...emloft.net>, <pabeni@...hat.com>, <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@...as.ac.cn>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...dia.com>,
        Gurucharan G <gurucharanx.g@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/2] ice: Add check for kzalloc

On Wed, 11 Jan 2023 11:31:55 -0800 Tony Nguyen wrote:
> Hi Jakub,
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion/improvement. This won't be here much longer as 
> we will be converting to use the kernel infrastructure [1] soon, but 
> will keep this in mind for the future.
> 
> This was mainly to ensure the existing implementations got 
> corrected/could be backported.

Ack, to be clear - I did not mean to request a follow up.
Only to suggest a better way of dealing with the error path 
for future code.