Re: [PATCH 05/10] drivers:net: return -ENOMEM on allocation failure.

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Wed Sep 13 2017 - 08:09:27 EST


On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 01:02:14PM +0530, Allen Pais wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Allen Pais <allen.lkml@xxxxxxxxx>

Hi Allen

Although correct, if you look higher up the call chain, this appears
to be not so useful.

rlb_initialize() is only called by bond_alb_initialize(), and it
propagates the -1. That is only called by bond_open() with:

if (bond_alb_initialize(bond, (BOND_MODE(bond) == BOND_MODE_ALB)))
return -ENOMEM;

So you might want to also modify this code, to return the return
value, rather than use the hard coded ENOMEM.

Since you code is OK as far as it goes:

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>

Andrew