Re: alpha: Checking for a failed kmalloc() in process_reloc_for_got()?

From	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: alpha: Checking for a failed kmalloc() in process_reloc_for_got()?
Date	2016-12-04 11:30 +0100
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>> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/tree/arch/alpha/kernel/module.c?id=e05f574a0bb1f4502a4b2264fdb0ef6419cf3772#n40
>>
>> Would it be useful to check the return value from a call of the
>> function “kmalloc” also there?
> 
> *drumroll* it'd actually be a proper bugfix.

Which kind of exception handling can be added here when the function
“process_reloc_for_got” has got the return type “void” so far?

Will it be needed to handle such a software failure at more source code places
by a special error code?

Regards,
Markus

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alpha: Checking for a failed kmalloc() in process_reloc_for_got()? SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2016-12-03 14:30 +0100
  Re: alpha: Checking for a failed kmalloc() in  process_reloc_for_got()? Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> - 2016-12-04 01:20 +0100
    Re: alpha: Checking for a failed kmalloc() in  process_reloc_for_got()? SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2016-12-04 11:30 +0100

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