stat.c can fail only if the 'size' argument of alloc_skb() was not right. This is a kernel bug, we should not hide it. So add 'BUG()' on error path and check for 'na == NULL'. > genlmsg_cancel() is only required in error paths for dumping > procedures. So we can remove 'genlmsg_cancel()' calls and 'void *reply' (saves 227 bytes). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Thomas Graf Cc: Shailabh Nagar Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: Jay Lan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds