Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86:mm:return -ENOMEM if kzalloc() fails

[Joe Perches]

On Thu, 2017-09-07 at 12:08 +0530, Allen wrote:
> > On Thu, 2017-09-07 at 11:56 +0530, Allen Pais wrote:
> > >  Currently on failure the value returned from kzalloc() is -1.
> > > It should return -ENOMEM.
> > > 
> > 
> > Looks like there are quite a few of these:
> > (probably several false positives too)
> 
>  The list is long. If the maintainers are okay with these clean-ups,
> i'll go ahead and get all of them done.

Make sure you check the calling chains to ensure that
the conversion from -1 to -12 doesn't break anything.