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| From | Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> |
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] iirqchip: Handle return value of kasprintf |
| Date | Fri, 22 Sep 2017 10:20:02 +0200 |
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On Wed, Sep 20 2017 at 1:38:18 pm BST, Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com> wrote: > kasprintf() can fail here and we must check its return value. Or not. The use of these strings is purely cosmetic (they are only used to display various debug information), and printk is perfectly able to handle a NULL string. Refusing to probe an essential piece of HW because a debug feature failed seems at best counter-productive. Thanks, M. -- Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny.
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[PATCH 0/4] iirqchip: Handle return value of kasprintf Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com> - 2017-09-20 10:10 +0200
[PATCH 3/4] irqchip/gic: Handle return value of kasprintf Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com> - 2017-09-20 10:10 +0200
[PATCH 1/4] irqchip/gic-v3-its: Handle return value of kasprintf Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com> - 2017-09-20 10:10 +0200
[PATCH 2/4] irqchip/gic-v3-its-platform-msi: Handle return value of kasprintf Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com> - 2017-09-20 10:10 +0200
Re: [PATCH 0/4] iirqchip: Handle return value of kasprintf Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> - 2017-09-22 10:20 +0200
Re: [PATCH 0/4] iirqchip: Handle return value of kasprintf Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com> - 2017-09-22 11:00 +0200
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