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

Alan Stern
2017-12-06T21:18:57Z

On Wed, 6 Dec 2017, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Wed, 2017-12-06 at 11:45 -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Wed, 6 Dec 2017, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > > Omit an extra message for a memory allocation failure in this function.
>
> Markus' typical terrible commit message.
>
> > > diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/hub.c b/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
> []
> > > @@ -829,7 +829,6 @@ int usb_hub_clear_tt_buffer(struct urb *urb)
> > > */
> > > clear = kmalloc(sizeof *clear, GFP_ATOMIC);
> > > if (clear == NULL) {
> > > - dev_err(&udev->dev, "can't save CLEAR_TT_BUFFER state\n");
> > > /* FIXME recover somehow ... RESET_TT? */
> > > return -ENOMEM;
> > > }
> >
> > 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.

Alan Stern