[PATCH] HID: hiddev: return -ENOMEM when kmalloc failed

From: Yang Li
Date: Mon Apr 26 2021 - 05:35:33 EST


The driver is using -1 instead of the -ENOMEM defined macro to
specify that a buffer allocation failed. Using the correct error
code is more intuitive.

Smatch tool warning:
drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c:894 hiddev_connect() warn: returning -1
instead of -ENOMEM is sloppy

No functional change, just more standardized.

Reported-by: Abaci Robot <abaci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yang Li <yang.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c b/drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c
index 45e0b1c..88020f3 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c
@@ -891,7 +891,7 @@ int hiddev_connect(struct hid_device *hid, unsigned int force)
}

if (!(hiddev = kzalloc(sizeof(struct hiddev), GFP_KERNEL)))
- return -1;
+ return -ENOMEM;

init_waitqueue_head(&hiddev->wait);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&hiddev->list);
--
1.8.3.1