Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] staging: r8188eu: check the return of kzalloc()

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Apr 07 2022 - 13:51:19 EST


On Thu, Apr 07, 2022 at 10:03:49AM +0800, xkernel.wang@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Thursday, April 7, 2022 3:22 AM +0800, paskripkin@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > -void rtw_alloc_hwxmits(struct adapter *padapter)
> > > +s32 rtw_alloc_hwxmits(struct adapter *padapter)
> > > {
> >
> > What about plain 'int'? I know that s32 is typedef for 'int', but 'int'
> > looks more natural
> >
>
> I agree with you.
> Since the type of `_rtw_init_xmit_priv` is `s32`, I directly changed the
> type of `rtw_alloc_hwxmits` to `s32` (they are neighbors in rtw_xmit.h).
> In fact, there are many places where `s32` appears together with `int`
> in related files, so maybe we can leave it as a future work to make all
> of them a unified form.

No, get this one right to start with.

thanks,

greg k-h