Hi Bas,

All instances of this warning refer to usage of alloc_skb using the
GFP_ATOMIC flag. Why does checkpatch show this warning? Is it not good
practice to _always_ check whether allocation succeeded or not?

I hope someone can explain the nature of this warning and, if right,
what it should look like.

I suggest you to take a look at the following thread
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/10/382
As a short summary to that discussion:
1. You should check the NULL pointer.
2. You shouldn't print the error.

With kind regards,

Bas Peters



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