Re: [PATCH 2/5] sctp: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in sctp_init()

Vlad Yasevich
2017-05-22T20:59:43Z

On 05/22/2017 12:38 PM, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 17:28:14 +0200
>
> Omit an extra message for a memory allocation failure in this function.
>
> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
>
> Link: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/LCJ16-Refactor_Strings-WSang_0.pdf
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
> ---
> net/sctp/protocol.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/sctp/protocol.c b/net/sctp/protocol.c
> index 2b1a6215bd2f..5e7c8a344770 100644
> --- a/net/sctp/protocol.c
> +++ b/net/sctp/protocol.c
> @@ -1447,5 +1447,4 @@ static __init int sctp_init(void)
> if (!sctp_ep_hashtable) {
> - pr_err("Failed endpoint_hash alloc\n");
> status = -ENOMEM;
> goto err_ehash_alloc;
> }
>

Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>

At the time this was written, it was patterned after TCP. Since then TCP changed
significantly. We can surely clean-up the pr_err() here and possibly update the
code as well later.

-vlad