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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: shaojie.dong@isrc.iscas.ac.cn
Cc: Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net, florian.c.schilhabel@googlemail.com,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8712: check register_netdev() return value
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2020 17:03:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <X80AySpyP3fxhRmb@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201206155907.7991-1-shaojie.dong@isrc.iscas.ac.cn>

On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 11:59:07PM +0800, shaojie.dong@isrc.iscas.ac.cn wrote:
> From: "shaojie.dong" <shaojie.dong@isrc.iscas.ac.cn>
> 
> Function register_netdev() can fail, so we should check it's return value

You just check it, you are not doing anything with it, which is just the
same as not checking this.

Please fix this properly.

thanks,

greg k-h

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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: shaojie.dong@isrc.iscas.ac.cn
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, florian.c.schilhabel@googlemail.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8712: check register_netdev() return value
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2020 17:03:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <X80AySpyP3fxhRmb@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201206155907.7991-1-shaojie.dong@isrc.iscas.ac.cn>

On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 11:59:07PM +0800, shaojie.dong@isrc.iscas.ac.cn wrote:
> From: "shaojie.dong" <shaojie.dong@isrc.iscas.ac.cn>
> 
> Function register_netdev() can fail, so we should check it's return value

You just check it, you are not doing anything with it, which is just the
same as not checking this.

Please fix this properly.

thanks,

greg k-h
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  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-06 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-06 15:59 [PATCH] staging: rtl8712: check register_netdev() return value shaojie.dong
2020-12-06 15:59 ` shaojie.dong
2020-12-06 16:03 ` Greg KH [this message]
2020-12-06 16:03   ` Greg KH
2020-12-06 17:10 ` kernel test robot
2020-12-06 17:10   ` kernel test robot
2020-12-06 17:10   ` kernel test robot
2020-12-09 15:01 shaojie.dong
2020-12-09 15:01 ` shaojie.dong
2020-12-09 15:13 ` Greg KH
2020-12-09 15:13   ` Greg KH
2020-12-09 17:46 ` Dan Carpenter
2020-12-09 17:46   ` Dan Carpenter

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