Re: [PATCH] tools lib traceevent: Replace malloc_or_die to plain malloc in alloc_event()

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 15:28 +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
> 
> Because the only caller of the alloc_event()
> (pevent_parse_event) checks return value properly,
> it can be changed to use plain malloc.
> 
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
> ---
>  tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c |    4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c b/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c
> index c471075e4974..a6b5bcdc5580 100644
> --- a/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c
> +++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c
> @@ -621,7 +621,9 @@ static struct event_format *alloc_event(void)
>  {
>  	struct event_format *event;
>  
> -	event = malloc_or_die(sizeof(*event));
> +	event = malloc(sizeof(*event));
> +	if (!event)
> +		return NULL;
>  	memset(event, 0, sizeof(*event));

Perhaps we should combined these to:

{
	struct event_format *event;

	event = calloc(1, sizeof(*event));
	return event;
}

Or even:

{
	return calloc(1, sizeof(struct event_format));
}


-- Steve


>  
>  	return event;