From: Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@gmail.com>
To: Marek Belisko <marek.belisko@gmail.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] staging/ft1000: Return -ENOMEM if kmalloc fails at ft1000_probe
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 18:15:25 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1340109925-30472-1-git-send-email-devendra.aaru@gmail.com> (raw)
If the kmalloc fails return -ENOMEM , returning 0 is not the proper
way if any function fails
Signed-off-by: Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@gmail.com>
---
drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_usb.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_usb.c b/drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_usb.c
index 84c38d5..a07c504 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_usb.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_usb.c
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ static int ft1000_probe(struct usb_interface *interface,
if (!ft1000dev) {
printk(KERN_ERR "out of memory allocating device structure\n");
- return 0;
+ return -ENOMEM;
}
memset(ft1000dev, 0, sizeof(*ft1000dev));
--
1.7.9.5
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