Subject: Re: bonding: Completion of error handling around bond_update_slave_arr()

From: SF Markus Elfring <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 22:41:08 +0100

>>> If you see 8 out of 9 call sites in this file ignore the return value.
>>
>> How do you think about to fix error detection and corresponding
>> exception handling then?
>>
> If I understand your question correctly - not having memory is not a
> correctable error

I am unsure if it would be feasible to retry memory allocations for
this software module under other circumstances.

> and hence there are consequences.

Could one consequence be to let the error code “-ENOMEM” move through
the function call hierarchy?

Regards,
Markus