From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 13:20:02 +0000
Subject: Re: [patch] CodingStyle: add some more error handling guidelines
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To: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>, Coccinelle <cocci@systeme.lip6.fr>, backports@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>, "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>

Sorry.  I misread your email.  If the code looks like this:

	foo = kmalloc();
	if (!foo)
		goto kmalloc_failed;

The "kmalloc_failed" doesn't add any information.  We can see that
kmalloc failed from the context.

regards,
dan carpenter