Re: [patch] ixgbevf: potential NULL dereference on allocation failure

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From: "Rose, Gregory V" <gregory.v.rose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:57:46 -0700

> I've taken up your suggestions and implemented them (roughly) as
> suggested below.  After looking at the code I had to agree that it
> would be very confusing for a user to set new ring parameters, have
> the call partially succeed but get no error and then look at the
> parameters again and not see what he expected.  Now the code will do
> as suggested and just unwind all prior allocations and return an
> error if the new ring sizing didn't work.  The user will be left
> with the prior ring size allocations which is probably what he would
> expect.
>
> The patch is going to be posted internally and after it goes through
> our review process it will be posted to netdev.

Thanks for doing this work Greg.
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