Re: USB: hub: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in usb_hub_clear_tt_buffer()

Dan Carpenter
2017-12-07T08:37:22Z

On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 08:40:07AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 11:02 PM, Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
> > On Wed, 6 Dec 2017, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> >> >>> Does the existing memory allocation error message include the
> >> >>> &udev->dev device name and driver name? If it doesn't, there will be
> >> >>> no way for the user to tell that the error message is related to the
> >> >>> device failure.
> >> >>
> >> >> No, but the effect is similar.
> >> >>
> >> >> OOM does a dump_stack() so this function's call tree is shown.
> >> >
> >> > A call stack doesn't tell you which device was being handled.
> >>
> >> Do you find a default Linux allocation failure report insufficient then?
> >>
> >> Would you like to to achieve that the requested information can be determined
> >> from a backtrace?
> >
> > It is not practical to do this. The memory allocation routines do not
> > for what purpose the memory is being allocated; hence when a failure
> > occurs they cannot tell what device (or other part of the system) will
> > be affected.
>
> If even allocation of 24 bytes fails, lots of other devices and other parts of
> the system will start failing really soon...
>

Small allocations never fail in the current kernel.

regards,
dan carpenter