On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 13:30 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> If krealloc() returns NULL, it *doesn't* free the original. So any code
> of the form 'foo = krealloc(foo, …);' is almost certainly a bug.
So add a check for it to checkpatch.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>