On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 12:19 AM, SF Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> If you see 8 out of 9 call sites in this file ignore the return value. > > How do you think about to fix error detection and corresponding > exception handling then? > If I understand your question correctly - not having memory is not a correctable error and hence there are consequences. In this case, the slave_arr is not going to be rebuilt and this might mean loosing packets (if the interface was dropped) or not using the interface to send packets if that was added (very unlikely case). From host's perspective, however, this might be the last thing you want to worry about when there is no memory left. > 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
