Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] staging: gs_fpgaboot: Fix "Possible unnecessary 'out of memory' message" checkpatch.pl warning

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On 10/09/2014 12:48 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 05:54:48PM +0200, Dzmitry Sledneu wrote:
>> Fix "Possible unnecessary 'out of memory' message" checkpatch.pl warning
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dzmitry Sledneu <dzmitry.sledneu@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> ---
>>  drivers/staging/gs_fpgaboot/gs_fpgaboot.c | 7 ++-----
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/gs_fpgaboot/gs_fpgaboot.c b/drivers/staging/gs_fpgaboot/gs_fpgaboot.c
>> index 9764a9a..0c18c4c 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/gs_fpgaboot/gs_fpgaboot.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/gs_fpgaboot/gs_fpgaboot.c
>> @@ -295,10 +295,8 @@ static int gs_fpgaboot(void)
>>  	struct fpgaimage	*fimage;
>>  
>>  	fimage = kmalloc(sizeof(struct fpgaimage), GFP_KERNEL);
>> -	if (fimage == NULL) {
>> -		pr_err("No memory is available\n");
>> -		goto err_out;
>> -	}
>> +	if (!fimage)
>> +		return -ENOMEM;
>>  
>>  	err = gs_load_image(fimage, file);
>>  	if (err) {
>> @@ -340,7 +338,6 @@ err_out2:
>>  err_out1:
>>  	kfree(fimage);
>>  
>> -err_out:
>>  	return -1;
>>  
>>  }
> 
> Doesn't apply to my tree properly :(
> 

I looked at it in your tree and it has already been fixed there.

But the fix is not quite correct, because it returns -ENOPERM (-1)
it case kmalloc fails and not -ENOMEM (-12).

I will submit a new patch to fix this.

Dzmitry
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