[PATCH 3/9] staging: ks7010: Return directly after a failed kmalloc()

SF Markus Elfring elfring at users.sourceforge.net
Wed Jul 20 18:40:11 UTC 2016


>>> @@ -713,10 +713,8 @@ static int ks7010_sdio_update_index(struct ks_wlan_private *priv, u32 index)
>>>  	unsigned char *data_buf;
>>>
>>>  	data_buf = kmalloc(sizeof(u32), GFP_KERNEL);
>>> -	if (!data_buf) {
>>> -		rc = 1;
>>> -		goto error_out;
>>> -	}
>>> +	if (!data_buf)
>>> +		return 1;
>>
>> One could rather wonder why the function has such strange error values...
> 
> Agreed. Markus, can you check if we can use -ENOMEM in those places.

I find that I do not know this software good enough at the moment
so that I could safely decide on the shown special error values.
I guess that further clarification might be needed for affected
implementation details.

Regards,
Markus


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