On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 19:58:00 +0530, Bharath Vedartham said: > add code to handle the case when kzalloc fails to allocate memory to dev > > Signed-off-by: Bharath Vedartham <linux.bhar@xxxxxxxxx> > dev_set_name(&dev->dev, "iio:device%d", dev->id); > INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->buffer_list); > + } else { > + return NULL; > } > > return dev; Not needed, as the 'if (dev)' statement fails, dev is already null.