Re: [PATCH 0/4] iirqchip: Handle return value of kasprintf

From	Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 0/4] iirqchip: Handle return value of kasprintf
Date	2017-09-22 11:00 +0200
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Hi Marc,

On Friday 22 September 2017 01:40 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> 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.
Yes, Your are right. Sorry for noise. :)
> Thanks,
>
> 	M.
~arvind

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  [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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