On 03/04/2020 11:45:04+0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 04:53:12PM +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote: > > > > As stated, I also prefer keeping the watchdog optional and ignore the > > error. > > Hopefully you aren't running out of memory on start up. In current > kernels small memory allocations like this never fail so it doesn't > really affect runtime. It only silences the NULL dereference static > checker warning. > Yes, so the if (!wdt) return; would be enough instead of introducing unnecessary error handling. -- Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com