On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Johannes Berg wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 16:11 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > From: Julia Lawall <ju...@diku.dk>
> > 
> > Check that the result of kzalloc is not NULL before a dereference.
> 
> >             irq_client = kzalloc(sizeof(struct pmf_irq_client),
> >                                  GFP_KERNEL);
> > +           if (!irq_client) {
> > +                   err = -ENOMEM;
> > +                   printk(KERN_ERR "snd-aoa: gpio layer failed to"
> > +                           " register %s irq (%d)\n", name, err);
> > +                   goto out_unlock;
> > +           }
> 
> Looks good, thanks, but I'd really drop the printk if only to not have
> the string there, that doesn't really seem interesting.

The printk is based on similar error handling code a few lines later:

               if (err) {
                        printk(KERN_ERR "snd-aoa: gpio layer failed to"
                                        " register %s irq (%d)\n", name, 
err);
                        kfree(irq_client);
                        goto out_unlock;
                }

Should the printk be removed in this case as well?  Or is it ok to fail 
silently in one case and not in the other?

julia
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