From: Salah Triki <salah.triki@gmail.com>
To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] dio: return -ENOMEM when kzalloc() fails
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2021 14:31:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210702133114.GA314157@pc> (raw)
Return -ENOMEM when kzalloc() fails in order to inform the caller of the
failure.
Signed-off-by: Salah Triki <salah.triki@gmail.com>
---
drivers/dio/dio.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/dio/dio.c b/drivers/dio/dio.c
index 193b40e7aec0..4c06c93c93d3 100644
--- a/drivers/dio/dio.c
+++ b/drivers/dio/dio.c
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ static int __init dio_init(void)
/* Found a board, allocate it an entry in the list */
dev = kzalloc(sizeof(struct dio_dev), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!dev)
- return 0;
+ return -ENOMEM;
dev->bus = &dio_bus;
dev->dev.parent = &dio_bus.dev;
--
2.25.1
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2021-07-02 13:31 Salah Triki [this message]
2021-07-02 14:44 ` [PATCH] dio: return -ENOMEM when kzalloc() fails Greg KH
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