On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 16:11 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > Check that the result of kzalloc is not NULL before a dereference.
>
> > irq_client = kzalloc(sizeof(struct pmf_irq_client),
> > GFP_KERNEL);
> > + if (!irq_client) {
> > + err = -ENOMEM;
> > + printk(KERN_ERR "snd-aoa: gpio layer failed to"
> > + " register %s irq (%d)\n", name, err);
> > + goto out_unlock;
> > + }
>
> Looks good, thanks, but I'd really drop the printk if only to not have
> the string there, that doesn't really seem interesting.
The printk is based on similar error handling code a few lines later:
if (err) {
printk(KERN_ERR "snd-aoa: gpio layer failed to"
" register %s irq (%d)\n", name,
err);
kfree(irq_client);
goto out_unlock;
}
Should the printk be removed in this case as well? Or is it ok to fail
silently in one case and not in the other?
julia
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