Re: [PATCH] staging: wlags49_h2: Replace kmalloc+memset by kzalloc and add error handling.

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On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 03:11:45PM +0530, santosh nayak wrote:
>> -        dev_wds = kmalloc( sizeof( struct net_device ), GFP_KERNEL );
>> -        memset( dev_wds, 0, sizeof( struct net_device ));
>> +     dev_wds = kzalloc(sizeof(struct net_device), GFP_KERNEL);
>> +     if (unlikely(!dev_wds)) {
>> +             printk(KERN_ERR "%s: failed to alloc memory\n", __func__);
>
> Don't resend, but kmalloc() already prints out way more extensive
> and useful error messages than this.  No need to print an error
> message yourself normally.
>

Do you mean in the following format ?

+       if (unlikely(!dev_wds)) {
+               DBG_LEAVE(DbgInfo);
+               return;
+       }



regards
Santosh
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>
>
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