Re: bonding: Completion of error handling around bond_update_slave_arr()

SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-04T21:41:16Z

>>> If you see 8 out of 9 call sites in this file ignore the return value.
>>
>> How do you think about to fix error detection and corresponding
>> exception handling then?
>>
> If I understand your question correctly - not having memory is not a
> correctable error

I am unsure if it would be feasible to retry memory allocations for
this software module under other circumstances.

> and hence there are consequences.

Could one consequence be to let the error code “-ENOMEM” move through
the function call hierarchy?

Regards,
Markus