linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] GenWQE: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in genwqe_user

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Date:   Mon, 8 Jan 2018 16:23:07 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     haver <haver@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jörg-Stephan Vogt <jsvogt@...ibm.com>,
        Michael Jung <MIJUNG@...ibm.com>,
        Michael Rüttger <michael@...ra.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] GenWQE: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in genwqe_user_vmap()

On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 01:45:02PM +0100, haver wrote:
> Hi Markus,
> 
> On 2018-01-08 10:41, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> > Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 09:37:23 +0100
> > 
> > Omit an extra message for a memory allocation failure in this function.
> > 
> > This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> > ---
> >  drivers/misc/genwqe/card_utils.c | 1 -
> >  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/misc/genwqe/card_utils.c
> > b/drivers/misc/genwqe/card_utils.c
> > index 8f2e6442d88b..55c389a9e7d7 100644
> > --- a/drivers/misc/genwqe/card_utils.c
> > +++ b/drivers/misc/genwqe/card_utils.c
> > @@ -593,7 +593,6 @@ int genwqe_user_vmap(struct genwqe_dev *cd, struct
> > dma_mapping *m, void *uaddr,
> >  			       sizeof(struct page *) + sizeof(dma_addr_t),
> >  			       GFP_KERNEL);
> >  	if (!m->page_list) {
> > -		dev_err(&pci_dev->dev, "err: alloc page_list failed\n");
> 
> Are there different printouts which cover this? I mean the debug printout is
> not
> appearing all the time, it must be enabled, if I remember correctly.

The kmalloc() error messages are enabled by default.  See warn_alloc().
The stack trace from this specific call site is going to be very clear
what went wrong.


> So why
> do
> you suggest to remove it?
>

It's a checkpatch warning and a small memory savings.

regards,
dan carpenter