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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@linux.intel.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: USB: emi26: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in emi26_writememory()
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 14:25:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c873917f-0264-f4c5-3753-dc6a588cfb51@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)

>> @@ -42,10 +42,9 @@ static int emi26_writememory (struct usb_device *dev, int address,
>>  	int result;
>>  	unsigned char *buffer =  kmemdup(data, length, GFP_KERNEL);
>>
>> -	if (!buffer) {
>> -		dev_err(&dev->dev, "kmalloc(%d) failed.\n", length);
> 
> I guess the length information would not be so easy to find in the backtrace.

Why do you “guess”?


>> +	if (!buffer)
>>  		return -ENOMEM;
>> -	}

Would we like to achieve another consensus on the data which are provided by
a default Linux allocation failure report?

Regards,
Markus
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             reply	other threads:[~2017-12-06 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-06 13:25 SF Markus Elfring [this message]
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2017-12-06 13:18 USB: emi26: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in emi26_writememory() Dan Carpenter
2017-12-06 12:12 Julia Lawall
2017-12-06 12:06 SF Markus Elfring

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