From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:07:04 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] staging: otus: check kmalloc() return value Message-Id: <20100730140704.GB26313@bicker> List-Id: References: <1280488080-20777-1-git-send-email-segooon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1280488080-20777-1-git-send-email-segooon@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Kulikov Vasiliy Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , Alexander Beregalov , Tejun Heo , Mithlesh Thukral , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 03:08:00PM +0400, Kulikov Vasiliy wrote: > if (size > 0) { > buf = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); > + if (buf = NULL) { > + pr_err("zfwUsbSubmitControl() failed, " > + "kmalloc() returned NULL\n"); This isn't a big deal, but the pr_err() isn't needed. kmalloc() already prints a message unless __GFP_NOWARN is used. regards, dan carpenter