Re: [RFC PATCH] gpio: pl061: handle failed allocations

[Linus Walleij]

On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 1:03 PM Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> devm_kzalloc(), devm_kstrdup() and devm_kasprintf() all can
> fail internal allocation and return NULL. Using any of the assigned
> objects without checking is not safe. As this is early in the boot
> phase and these allocations really should not fail, any failure here
> is probably an indication of a more serious issue so it makes little
> sense to try and rollback the previous allocated resources or try to
> continue;  but rather the probe function is simply exited with -ENOMEM.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 684284b64aae ("ARM: integrator: add MMCI device to IM-PD1")

Looks good to me so patch applied to my Integrator tree
for fixes.

Yours,
Liinus Walleij