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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Bug Patch
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 14:08:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15552.1410199704@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 Sep 2014 06:36:34 -0400." <540D86B2.6080505@gmail.com>

On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 06:36:34 -0400, nick said:

> Found a bug and attempted to fix it
>  			sub_skb = dev_alloc_skb(nSubframe_Length + 12);
> +			if (!sub_skb)
> +				return -ENOMEM;

Nick - we've told you before to research this stuff more fully before
posting patches.  As others have pointed out, there's exactly one caller, who
wants a different return on error.

For bonus points - explain why you're returning a -ENOMEM from
a function that's declared as 'static u8 parse_subframe(...'.

This is *NOT* how you convince us that you should be allowed anywhere near
kernel code.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-08 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-08 10:36 Bug Patch nick
2014-09-08 11:10 ` Sudip Mukherjee
2014-09-08 11:21 ` Tobias S. Josefowitz
2014-09-08 11:35   ` Sudip Mukherjee
2014-09-08 12:45     ` Doug Wilson
2014-09-08 18:08 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu [this message]
2014-09-08 21:05   ` nick
2014-09-08 22:09     ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2014-09-09  0:51       ` nick

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