Re: [PATCH] staging: dgnc: check return value of kzalloc

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On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 01:52:28PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 10:06:48AM +0000, Gujulan Elango, Hari Prasath (H.) wrote:
> > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 11:54:09AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 07:44:11AM +0000, Gujulan Elango, Hari Prasath (H.) wrote:
> > > > check return value of kzalloc and return error if it fails.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > There is a problem with your patch.  See if you can spot it.  Also can
> > > you add to the changelog what are the user visible effects of not
> > > checking for kzalloc() failure?  Last time with ->flipbuf there were no
> > > user visible effects.
> > > 
> > > Also return -ENOMEM seems like the wrong thing.  Shouldn't we do some
> > > error handling.  Also you are not working on linux-next?  Some of this
> > > stuff is done correctly in linux-next.
> > > 
> > > regards,
> > > dan carpenter
> > > 
> > 
> > Dan,I am working on the staging-testing git tree.I was not aware that
> > someone has submitted a similar patch which was reviewed by you &
> > sudip.If a patch to address this has already gone in,why am I not seeing
> > that change here.Am I missing something ?
> 
> Something is wrong.  You should see:
> 
> commit fa52d96c3ea110acb77e51c856ec0b54606cc17e
> Author: Giedrius Statkevičius <giedrius.statkevicius@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Fri Apr 10 02:42:29 2015 +0300
> 
>     staging: dgnc: clean up allocation of ->channels[i]
> 
> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter

Yes Dan I was this commit and the comments.I updated my staging-testing
tree regularly by doing a git pull.But I am not sure how this change
went missing.Anyways this patch should be dropped.
> 
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