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[05/10] drivers:net: return -ENOMEM on allocation failure.

Message ID 1505287939-14106-5-git-send-email-allen.lkml@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State Not Applicable
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Allen Sept. 13, 2017, 7:32 a.m. UTC 
Signed-off-by: Allen Pais <allen.lkml@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Andrew Lunn Sept. 13, 2017, 12:09 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 01:02:14PM +0530, Allen Pais wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Allen Pais <allen.lkml@gmail.com>

Hi Allen

Although correct, if you look higher up the call chain, this appears
to be not so useful.

rlb_initialize() is only called by bond_alb_initialize(), and it
propagates the -1. That is only called by bond_open() with:

	if (bond_alb_initialize(bond, (BOND_MODE(bond) == BOND_MODE_ALB)))
		return -ENOMEM;

So you might want to also modify this code, to return the return
value, rather than use the hard coded ENOMEM.

Since you code is OK as far as it goes:

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>

    Andrew
Allen Sept. 13, 2017, 1:05 p.m. UTC | #2 
> propagates the -1. That is only called by bond_open() with:
>
>         if (bond_alb_initialize(bond, (BOND_MODE(bond) == BOND_MODE_ALB)))
>                 return -ENOMEM;
>
> So you might want to also modify this code, to return the return
> value, rather than use the hard coded ENOMEM.
>

 I'll modify the above and send it out a separate patch.

Thank you.
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c
index c02cc81..89df377 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c
@@ -864,7 +864,7 @@  static int rlb_initialize(struct bonding *bond)
 
 	new_hashtbl = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!new_hashtbl)
-		return -1;
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	spin_lock_bh(&bond->mode_lock);