Author: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software. 1. Let us return directly if a buffer allocation failed. 2. Delete the jump label “err” then. 3. Drop the explicit initialisation for the variable “ret” at the beginning. 4. Return zero as a constant at the end. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring Signed-off-by: …