kfifo must_check warning

[Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>]

In 2.6.36-rc8, I see this build warning:

drivers/char/n_gsm.c: In function 'gsm_dlci_alloc':
drivers/char/n_gsm.c:1580: warning: ignoring return value of '__kfifo_must_check_helper', declared with attribute warn_unused_result

The helper seems to be getting in the way (?).  The driver code does this:

	if (kfifo_alloc(&dlci->_fifo, 4096, GFP_KERNEL) < 0) {
		kfree(dlci);
		return NULL;
	}

Should the driver code be doing something else?
or should the kfifo_alloc() macro be checking the result of the helper?


thanks,
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~Randy
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