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From: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
To: Ratheesh Kannoth <rkannoth@marvell.com>,
	Denis Kirjanov <kirjanov@gmail.com>
Cc: stephen@networkplumber.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Denis Kirjanov <dkirjanov@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] ifstat: handle strdup return value
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 20:34:43 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19699d5f-29d7-4e14-b954-d612c5035b4a@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240315022329.GA1295449@maili.marvell.com>

On 3/14/24 8:23 PM, Ratheesh Kannoth wrote:
>> diff --git a/misc/ifstat.c b/misc/ifstat.c
>> index 685e66c9..f94b11bc 100644
>> --- a/misc/ifstat.c
>> +++ b/misc/ifstat.c
>> @@ -140,6 +140,11 @@ static int get_nlmsg_extended(struct nlmsghdr *m, void *arg)
>>
>>  	n->ifindex = ifsm->ifindex;
>>  	n->name = strdup(ll_index_to_name(ifsm->ifindex));
>> +	if (!n->name) {
>> +		free(n);
>> +		errno = ENOMEM;
> strdup() will set the errno right ? why do you need to set it explicitly ?

agreed.

pw-bot: cr


  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-15  2:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-14 12:20 [PATCH iproute2] ifstat: handle strdup return value Denis Kirjanov
2024-03-15  2:23 ` Ratheesh Kannoth
2024-03-15  2:34   ` David Ahern [this message]
2024-03-15  4:46   ` Stephen Hemminger

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