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From: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@collabora.com>
To: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>,
	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: thomas@winischhofer.net, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	trivial@kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] usb-misc: sisusbvga: Remove kmalloc logs and fix error path
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 16:19:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160107151918.GC4144@collabora.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <568D5CD9.70704@cogentembedded.com>

On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 09:28:41PM +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> On 1/5/2016 7:54 PM, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote:
> 
> >From: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>
> >
> >This patch remove four calls to dev_err() from sisusb_probe() as
> >reporting memory allocation failures is redundant:
> >
> >  - Remove a call to dev_err() that was reporting unsuccesful call to
> >    kzalloc().
> >
> >  - Remove two calls to dev_err() that were reporting unsuccesful calls
> >    to kmalloc().
> >
> >  - Remove a call to dev_err() that was reporting unsuccesful call to
> >    kmalloc(), and replace it by code that clean up previously allocated
> >    resources and abort the probe with -ENOMEM. Before this modification
> >    sisusb->SiS_Pr could be dereferenced even it was null.
> 
>    I think the bug fix should be in its own patch. Don't intermix fixes with
> cleanups please.

Ok, I'll resend the series with the following changes:
 - split patch 1: vertical and horizontal changes
 - split patch 4: cleanups and fix


  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-07 15:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-05 16:54 [PATCH 0/5] usb-misc: cleanup sisusbvga Peter Senna Tschudin
2016-01-05 16:54 ` [PATCH 1/5] usb-misc: sisusbvga: Fix coding style: white space Peter Senna Tschudin
2016-01-05 16:54 ` [PATCH 2/5] usb-misc: sisusbvga: Fix trivial coding style Peter Senna Tschudin
2016-01-05 16:54 ` [PATCH 3/5] usb-misc: sisusbvga: Remove assignments from if tests Peter Senna Tschudin
2016-01-05 16:54 ` [PATCH 4/5] usb-misc: sisusbvga: Remove kmalloc logs and fix error path Peter Senna Tschudin
2016-01-06 18:28   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2016-01-07 15:19     ` Peter Senna Tschudin [this message]
2016-01-05 16:54 ` [PATCH 5/5] usb-misc: sisusbvga: Remove null test before kfree() Peter Senna Tschudin
2016-01-05 18:53 ` [PATCH 0/5] usb-misc: cleanup sisusbvga Joe Perches
2016-01-06 15:30   ` Peter Senna Tschudin
2016-01-06 16:04     ` Joe Perches

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