netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: vsc73xx: Add null pointer check to vsc73xx_gpio

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Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2023 13:27:55 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Kunwu Chan <chentao@...inos.cn>
Cc: andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com, olteanv@...il.com,
 davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, pabeni@...hat.com,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kunwu Chan
 <kunwu.chan@...mail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: vsc73xx: Add null pointer check to
 vsc73xx_gpio_probe

On Mon, 11 Dec 2023 10:45:49 +0800 Kunwu Chan wrote:
>  	vsc->gc.label = devm_kasprintf(vsc->dev, GFP_KERNEL, "VSC%04x",
>  				       vsc->chipid);
> +	if (!vsc->gc.label) {
> +		dev_err(vsc->dev, "Fail to allocate memory\n");
> +		return -ENOMEM;
> +	}

Don't add error prints on memory allocations.
There will be an OOM splat in the logs.
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