Re: [PATCH 18/21] ide-floppy: fix error handling in idefloppy_probe()

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Friday 11 January 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c |    3 ++-
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c b/drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c
> index 89b26ea..0729df5 100644
> --- a/drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c
> +++ b/drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c
> @@ -1737,7 +1737,8 @@ static int ide_floppy_probe(ide_drive_t *drive)
>  				" emulation.\n", drive->name);
>  		goto failed;
>  	}
> -	if ((floppy = kzalloc(sizeof (idefloppy_floppy_t), GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL) {
> +	floppy = kzalloc(sizeof(idefloppy_floppy_t), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!floppy) {
>  		printk(KERN_ERR "ide-floppy: %s: Can't allocate a floppy"
>  				" structure\n", drive->name);
>  		goto failed;

I'm unable to see any problem with error handling here?

This change should be combined with the rest of checkpatch.pl fixes.
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