Re: Linux 2.4.10-pre12

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 19 Sep 2001 20:51:01 +0100 (BST)


> - There should be a test for a failed kmalloc()
> - sun3fb_init_fb() returns void (it returns int in the m68k tree)
>
> diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.4.9/linux/drivers/video/sun3fb.c linux/drivers/video/sun3fb.c
> --- v2.4.9/linux/drivers/video/sun3fb.c Thu Apr 26 22:17:27 2001
> +++ linux/drivers/video/sun3fb.c Mon Sep 17 22:52:35 2001
> @@ -586,9 +586,11 @@
> fb->cursor.hwsize.fbx = 32;
> fb->cursor.hwsize.fby = 32;
>
> - if (depth > 1 && !fb->color_map)
> + if (depth > 1 && !fb->color_map) {
> fb->color_map = kmalloc(256 * 3, GFP_ATOMIC);
> -
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + }
> +

its a weird corruption of the patch that I had. Im not quite sure what
has happened there. Lower down there is a random -ENODEV without a return
too.

I'll dig out the originals and send Linus something sane
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