[lvc-project] [PATCH] nfp: flower: Added pointer check and continue.

Jakub Kicinski kuba at kernel.org
Sun Nov 19 07:22:07 MSK 2023


On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 16:27:17 +0200 Louis Peens wrote:
> >                 acti_netdevs = kmalloc_array(entry->slave_cnt,
> >                                              sizeof(*acti_netdevs), GFP_KERNEL);
> > 

Unnecessary new line, please remove it.
There should be no empty lines between call and error check.

> > +               if (!acti_netdevs) {
> > +                       schedule_delayed_work(&lag->work, NFP_FL_LAG_DELAY);
> > +                       continue;
> > +               }
> > +  
> Thanks for reporting this Denis, it definitely seems to be an oversight.
> Would you mind adding a 'nfp_flower_cmsg_warn' here as well, so that
> this case does not go undetected? Maybe something like "cannot
> allocate memory for group processing" can work.

There's a checkpatch check against printing warnings on allocation
failures. Kernel will complain loudly on OOM, anyway, there's no need
for a local print.
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