Re: [PATCH 1/3] net: cavium: liquidio: Return correct error code

From: David Miller
Date: Sat Feb 13 2016 - 05:58:33 EST


From: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 19:25:13 +0530

> The return value of vmalloc on failure of allocation of memory should
> be -ENOMEM and not -1.
>
> Found using Coccinelle. A simplified version of the semantic patch
> used is:
...
> The single call site of the containing function checks whether the
> returned value is -1, so this check is changed as well. The single call
> site of this call site, however, only checks whether the value is not 0,
> so no further change was required.
>
> Signed-off-by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied.