From: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <redacted>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 00:12:36 +0530

This change has been made with the goal that kernel functions should
return something more descriptive than -1 on failure.

A variable `err` has been introduced for storing error codes.

The return value of kzalloc on failure should return a -1 and not a
-ENOMEM. This was found using Coccinelle. A simplified version of
the semantic patch used is:

 ...

Furthermore, set `err` to -ENOMEM on failure of alloc_netdev(), and to
-ENODEV on failure of register_netdev() and probe_irq_off().

The single call site only checks that the return value is not 0,
hence no change is required at the call site.

Signed-off-by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <redacted>

Applied to net-next, thanks.