>> How do you think about a wording variant like the following? > >> The result from a call of the function “devm_kzalloc” was passed to >> a subsequent function call without checking for a null pointer before >> (according to a memory allocation failure). >> Thus return directly after a failed devm_kzalloc() call. > > Feel free to ignore Markus, he has a long history of sending > unhelpful review comments and continues to ignore repeated requests > to stop. 30 non-merge commits were published with related subjects so far. Can you get a more constructive view from parts of public software development history? https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/?h=v6.12-rc1&qt=grep&q=Return+directly+after+a+failed Regards, Markus