Re: [PATCH v3] staging: r8188eu: add check for kzalloc

[Pavel Skripkin]

Hi Phillip,

On 5/21/22 23:56, Phillip Potter wrote:
> Hi Pavel,
>
> I agree with you totally - we should change these semantics to reflect
> how the rest of the kernel generally does things. That said, that is a
> bigger patch set and I noticed the driver was broken before I read this
> thread, so I've submitted a patch already just to fix the breakage for
> now.
>
> Changing these semantics is a bigger patch/patchset and I wanted to get
> this out in the meantime - if you are looking at doing this conversion I
> will by all means leave that alone as no desire to tread on anyones
> toes :-)

I think, redoing more then 500 place will take quite a long time, but 
driver should be fixed ASAP.

So let's apply your patch and then someone (maybe me) will cook a patch.




With regards,
Pavel Skripkin