On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 13:14:51 +0200 Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This is more standard to have sanity checks at the entry of a function, > instead of allocating some memory first and having to free it if a > condition is not met. Indeed this is silly. I'd guess result of code evolution, but perhaps I was crazy in the first place :) Applied, Thanks, Jonathan > > Shuffle code a bit to check 'masklength' before calling 'bitmap_alloc()' > > Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c | 9 +++++---- > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c b/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c > index 6d4776a7f002..a95cc2da56be 100644 > --- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c > +++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c > @@ -354,13 +354,14 @@ static int iio_scan_mask_set(struct iio_dev *indio_dev, > const unsigned long *mask; > unsigned long *trialmask; > > - trialmask = bitmap_alloc(indio_dev->masklength, GFP_KERNEL); > - if (!trialmask) > - return -ENOMEM; > if (!indio_dev->masklength) { > WARN(1, "Trying to set scanmask prior to registering buffer\n"); > - goto err_invalid_mask; > + return -EINVAL; > } > + > + trialmask = bitmap_alloc(indio_dev->masklength, GFP_KERNEL); > + if (!trialmask) > + return -ENOMEM; > bitmap_copy(trialmask, buffer->scan_mask, indio_dev->masklength); > set_bit(bit, trialmask); >