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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>, Al Cho <acho@novell.com>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: keucr: check kmalloc() return value
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:32:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100916193201.GC10397@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1284317808-4850-1-git-send-email-segooon@gmail.com>

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-16 19:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-12 18:56 [PATCH] staging: keucr: check kmalloc() return value Vasiliy Kulikov
2010-09-12 20:52 ` Dan Carpenter
2010-09-16 19:32 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-09-19  7:36   ` [PATCH v2] " Vasiliy Kulikov

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