Re: [PATCH] airo.c: check returned values

[Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Florin Malita wrote:
>   
>> create_proc_entry() can fail and return NULL in setup_proc_entry(), the
>> result must be checked before dereferencing. (Coverity ID 1443)
>>
>> init_wifidev() & setup_proc_entry() can also fail in _init_airo_card().
>>
>> This adds the checks & cleanup code and removes some whitespace.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>
>>     
>
> NAK:  create_proc_entry() is complicated.  You are correct it can fail 
> -- but to add to the confusion, when CONFIG_PROC_FS is disabled, the 
> wrapper will also return NULL -- which is NOT a failure case.
>   

It is a failure condition for setup_proc_entry() but you're saying that
shouldn't cause a failure of _init_airo_card() as the driver would be
working fine even without procfs support, right?

Note that previously the no-procfs case was *really* broken (it would
explode right away in setup_proc_entry) and I'm not sure it can function
correctly without it now but I guess it's worth a try.

Which one would be preferred:

 a) make the setup_proc_entry() call in _init_airo_card() conditional on
CONFIG_PROC_FS
 b) simply ignore the result

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fm
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