Re: [PATCH 5/5] sound/aoa: Add kmalloc NULL tests

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Thu Jul 30 2009 - 10:17:44 EST


On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 16:11 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
>
> Check that the result of kzalloc is not NULL before a dereference.

> irq_client = kzalloc(sizeof(struct pmf_irq_client),
> GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!irq_client) {
> + err = -ENOMEM;
> + printk(KERN_ERR "snd-aoa: gpio layer failed to"
> + " register %s irq (%d)\n", name, err);
> + goto out_unlock;
> + }

Looks good, thanks, but I'd really drop the printk if only to not have
the string there, that doesn't really seem interesting.

johannes

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