Re: [PATCH] drivers: iio: industrialio-core: add check when kzalloc fails

[valdis . kletnieks]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 19:58:00 +0530, Bharath Vedartham said:
> add code to handle the case when kzalloc fails to allocate memory to dev
>
> Signed-off-by: Bharath Vedartham <linux.b...@gmail.com>

>               dev_set_name(&dev->dev, "iio:device%d", dev->id);
>               INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->buffer_list);
> +     } else {
> +             return NULL;
>       }
>  
>       return dev;

Not needed, as the 'if (dev)' statement fails, dev is already null.