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

From Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86:mm:return -ENOMEM if kzalloc() fails
Date 2017-09-07 08:50 +0200
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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.

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[PATCH 1/1] x86:mm:return -ENOMEM if kzalloc() fails Allen Pais <allen.lkml@gmail.com> - 2017-09-07 08:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86:mm:return -ENOMEM if kzalloc() fails Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2017-09-07 08:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86:mm:return -ENOMEM if kzalloc() fails Allen <allen.lkml@gmail.com> - 2017-09-07 08:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86:mm:return -ENOMEM if kzalloc() fails Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2017-09-07 08:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86:mm:return -ENOMEM if kzalloc() fails Allen <allen.lkml@gmail.com> - 2017-09-07 09:00 +0200

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