Re: [PATCH][V2][next] rtc: ds1307: check for failed memory allocation on wdt

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Fri Apr 03 2020 - 04:45:55 EST


On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 04:53:12PM +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
>
> As stated, I also prefer keeping the watchdog optional and ignore the
> error.

Hopefully you aren't running out of memory on start up. In current
kernels small memory allocations like this never fail so it doesn't
really affect runtime. It only silences the NULL dereference static
checker warning.

regards,
dan carpenter