On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 01:06:24PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote: > cgroup core expected css_alloc to return an ERR_PTR value on failure > and caused NULL deref if it returned NULL. It's an easy mistake to > make from an alloc function and there's no ambiguity in what's being > indicated. Update css_create() so that it interprets NULL return from > css_alloc as -ENOMEM. > > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Would it be better to remove the error code instead and have everybody return NULL? AFAICS, everybody is returning either the object or the -ENOMEM error code right now. What error condition is there for an allocation function? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cgroups" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
