[PATCH 0/4] iirqchip: Handle return value of kasprintf

Arvind Yadav arvind.yadav.cs at gmail.com
Fri Sep 22 01:57:06 PDT 2017


Hi Marc,

On Friday 22 September 2017 01:40 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 20 2017 at  1:38:18 pm BST, Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs at gmail.com> wrote:
>> kasprintf() can fail here and we must check its return value.
> Or not. The use of these strings is purely cosmetic (they are only used
> to display various debug information), and printk is perfectly able to
> handle a NULL string.
>
> Refusing to probe an essential piece of HW because a debug feature
> failed seems at best counter-productive.
Yes, Your are right. Sorry for noise. :)
> Thanks,
>
> 	M.
~arvind



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