From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F464C433E0 for ; Fri, 29 May 2020 04:03:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2231720707 for ; Fri, 29 May 2020 04:03:46 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=ellerman.id.au header.i=@ellerman.id.au header.b="nX3d4InQ" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726415AbgE2EDp (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 May 2020 00:03:45 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.11.71.1]:51873 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725810AbgE2EDn (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 May 2020 00:03:43 -0400 Received: from authenticated.ozlabs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (P-256) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mail.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 49Y9sj5HBgz9sSp; Fri, 29 May 2020 14:03:37 +1000 (AEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=ellerman.id.au; s=201909; t=1590725021; bh=vH7zLNvGS4BorTtKtZ0BBnktSfHbH6n56wdkXjECHz8=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:From; b=nX3d4InQK8Spy3nzTCnyC/tJh184bN8xV/DKJUXBHc+k91/ltQT0HX1oj9OKljgJR OLBlxEdkOMO2UH1U/HXyF59BNbJ1RlJvukmPZiqTcBC3xgs2VkgbFhx8ixuSyr2KAT M0lkxxj9Oty+elmuy31hudyP/Ep7VWnZf9VzI9CiFbT5otkmKHKXv7l6h/LaaV/QzN 8eO407IHRENzXzexTNDi6CRDn32/fao2j1rE4WSG2wgP+/1wTTIHfV4mjUT2E7Gg8H GjOPSpJ7fYmHNQQ7hYnWNHJ/KLadbDTjUeMNQ6aqugzEkMlpaXsWHPtlHP9aGiwJVt kRxxe8XPoB1jw== From: Michael Ellerman To: Yi Wang Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, keescook@chromium.org, anton@enomsg.org, ccross@android.com, tony.luck@intel.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, tglx@linutronix.de, allison@lohutok.net, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xue.zhihong@zte.com.cn, wang.yi59@zte.com.cn, wang.liang82@zte.com.cn, Liao Pingfang Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/nvram: Replace kmalloc with kzalloc in the error message In-Reply-To: <1590714135-15818-1-git-send-email-wang.yi59@zte.com.cn> References: <1590714135-15818-1-git-send-email-wang.yi59@zte.com.cn> Date: Fri, 29 May 2020 14:04:01 +1000 Message-ID: <87r1v3idzi.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Yi Wang writes: > From: Liao Pingfang > > Use kzalloc instead of kmalloc in the error message according to > the previous kzalloc() call. Please just remove the message instead, it's a tiny allocation that's unlikely to ever fail, and the caller will print an error anyway. cheers > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c > index fb4f610..c3a0c8d 100644 > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c > @@ -892,7 +892,7 @@ loff_t __init nvram_create_partition(const char *name, int sig, > /* Create our OS partition */ > new_part = kzalloc(sizeof(*new_part), GFP_KERNEL); > if (!new_part) { > - pr_err("%s: kmalloc failed\n", __func__); > + pr_err("%s: kzalloc failed\n", __func__); > return -ENOMEM; > } > > -- > 2.9.5