Re: [PATCH 01/13] genirq/msi: Add cpumask allocation to alloc_msi_entry

[Alexander Gordeev]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 03:50:07PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 09:30:58AM +0200, Alexander Gordeev wrote:
> > >  	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&desc->list);
> > >  	desc->dev = dev;
> > > +	desc->nvec_used = nvec;

(*)

> > > +	if (affinity) {
> > > +		desc->affinity = kmemdup(affinity,
> > > +			nvec * sizeof(*desc->affinity), GFP_KERNEL);
> > > +		if (!desc->affinity) {
> > > +			kfree(desc);
> > > +			return NULL;
> > > +		}
> > > +	}
> > 
> > nit - should not "desc" initialization follow "desc->affinity" allocation?
> 
> I can't parse that sentence.  Do you mean the desc->nvec_used setup?

Yes, the inits above (*) would be useless if desc->affinity allocation failed.