From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:32:01 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: keucr: check kmalloc() return value Message-Id: <20100916193201.GC10397@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <1284317808-4850-1-git-send-email-segooon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1284317808-4850-1-git-send-email-segooon@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Vasiliy Kulikov Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , Al Cho , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:56:43PM +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote: > kmalloc() may fail, if so return error code. > Also don't alloc 16 bytes from the heap, use stack instead. Nope, you can't do that for USB drivers, sorry. Please read the documentation, it states this very clearly. thanks, greg k-h