From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Allen <allen.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86:mm:return -ENOMEM if kzalloc() fails
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2017 23:46:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1504766795.7546.16.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOMdWSLJ8dNDnY0nUHre3W2FUNm4Jf+divKqmAgQR5tnBfQ6jA@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 2017-09-07 at 12:08 +0530, Allen wrote:
> > On Thu, 2017-09-07 at 11:56 +0530, Allen Pais wrote:
> > > Currently on failure the value returned from kzalloc() is -1.
> > > It should return -ENOMEM.
> > >
> >
> > Looks like there are quite a few of these:
> > (probably several false positives too)
>
> The list is long. If the maintainers are okay with these clean-ups,
> i'll go ahead and get all of them done.
Make sure you check the calling chains to ensure that
the conversion from -1 to -12 doesn't break anything.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-07 6:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-07 6:26 [PATCH 1/1] x86:mm:return -ENOMEM if kzalloc() fails Allen Pais
2017-09-07 6:33 ` Joe Perches
2017-09-07 6:38 ` Allen
2017-09-07 6:46 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2017-09-07 6:54 ` Allen
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