>> Move the assignment for the local variable "data" behind the source code >> for a memory allocation by this function. > > Sorry, I can't see what the point is? * How do you think about to avoid a variable assignment in case that this memory allocation failed anyhow? * Do you care for data access locality? Regards, Markus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html