Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 May 2017 10:27:20 +0300 | From | Dan Carpenter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: imx: Check for memory allocation failure |
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On Sun, May 07, 2017 at 04:40:38AM +0900, Stafford Horne wrote: > Hi Christophe, > > On Sat, May 06, 2017 at 10:23:59AM +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote: > > If 'devm_kzalloc' fails, a NULL pointer will be dereferenced. > > Return -ENOMEM instead, as done for the other memory allocation just a > > few lines below. > > This looks fine. > > > BTW, change the 'devm_kzalloc' into a 'devm_kcalloc'. > > Any reason for the devm_kcalloc change? It looks like the next for loop > does set all of the group_name values. >
The advantage of kcalloc() over kzalloc() is the integer overflow checking. There is kmalloc_array() if we don't need to zero the memory.
regards, dan carpenter
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