On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 01:26:32PM +0300, Giedrius Statkevičius wrote: > kzalloc() could fail so add a check and return -ENOMEM if it does that gets > propogated to the pci layer > > Signed-off-by: Giedrius Statkevičius <giedrius.statkevicius@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_tty.c | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_tty.c b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_tty.c > index 61d5a8e..23337da 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_tty.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_tty.c > @@ -311,6 +311,8 @@ int dgnc_tty_init(struct dgnc_board *brd) > * interrupt context, and there are no locks held. > */ > brd->channels[i] = kzalloc(sizeof(*brd->channels[i]), GFP_KERNEL); > + if (!brd->channels[i]) > + return -ENOMEM; won't this create memory leak ? suppose you have brd->nasync = 3 and kzalloc fails when i=2, and you return -ENOMEM, then what happens to the memory already allocated to brd->channels[0] and brd->channels[1] ? regards sudip _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel