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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
	arjan@linux.intel.com, alex.williamson@hp.com,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs: sysfs_add_one tells you _where_ the duplicate file is
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:41:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090212174122.GA22301@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090212173835.GB20654@ldl.fc.hp.com>

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:38:35AM -0700, Alex Chiang wrote:
> +	if (ret == -EEXIST) {
> +		char *path = kzalloc(PATH_MAX, GFP_KERNEL);

You forgot to check the return value of kzalloc().

Another try?

8th time's a charm?  :)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-12 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-11 20:26 [PATCH] sysfs: sysfs_add_one tells you _where_ the duplicate file is Alex Chiang
2009-02-11 22:39 ` Greg KH
2009-02-12  2:56   ` Alex Chiang
2009-02-12  3:02     ` Greg KH
2009-02-12  7:02       ` Alex Chiang
2009-02-12  9:05         ` Kay Sievers
2009-02-12 16:02           ` Greg KH
2009-02-12 17:38             ` Alex Chiang
2009-02-12 17:41               ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-02-12 17:56                 ` Alex Chiang

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