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From: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
To: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org"
	<kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] connector: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in cn_queue_alloc_call
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2017 13:10:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <109501504617058@web52g.yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7b206228-b3e9-5cb9-873c-75b5d8aae23b@users.sourceforge.net>

Hi everyone

27.08.2017, 22:25, "SF Markus Elfring" <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 21:18:37 +0200
>
> Omit an extra message for a memory allocation failure in this function.
>
> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>

Looks good to me, thanks Markus.
There is virtually zero useful information in this print if we are in the situation, when kernel can not allocate
a few bytes to run connector queue.

Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>

kernel-janitors@ please queue this patch up

> ---
>  drivers/connector/cn_queue.c | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/connector/cn_queue.c b/drivers/connector/cn_queue.c
> index 1f8bf054d11c..e4f31d679f02 100644
> --- a/drivers/connector/cn_queue.c
> +++ b/drivers/connector/cn_queue.c
> @@ -40,10 +40,8 @@ cn_queue_alloc_callback_entry(struct cn_queue_dev *dev, const char *name,
>          struct cn_callback_entry *cbq;
>
>          cbq = kzalloc(sizeof(*cbq), GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!cbq) {
> - pr_err("Failed to create new callback queue.\n");
> + if (!cbq)
>                  return NULL;
> - }
>
>          atomic_set(&cbq->refcnt, 1);
>
> --
> 2.14.1

      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-09-05 13:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-27 19:25 [PATCH] connector: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in cn_queue_alloc_callback SF Markus Elfring
2017-08-27 23:16 ` [PATCH] connector: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in cn_queue_alloc_call Waskiewicz Jr, Peter
2017-08-28  6:05   ` Dan Carpenter
2017-08-28 14:05     ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter
2017-08-28  7:09   ` connector: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in cn_queue_alloc_callback_ent SF Markus Elfring
2017-09-05 13:10 ` Evgeniy Polyakov [this message]

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