linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] lightnvm/pblk-gc: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in pblk_gc_line_prepare

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Date:   Wed, 17 Jan 2018 09:01:07 +0100
From:   Javier González <jg@...htnvm.io>
To:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:     linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        Matias Bjørling <mb@...htnvm.io>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lightnvm/pblk-gc: Delete an error message for a failed
 memory allocation in pblk_gc_line_prepare_ws()

> On 16 Jan 2018, at 22.10, SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 22:00:15 +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/lightnvm/pblk-gc.c | 4 +---
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-gc.c b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-gc.c
> index 9c8e114c8a54..54cdb4360366 100644
> --- a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-gc.c
> +++ b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-gc.c
> @@ -147,10 +147,8 @@ static void pblk_gc_line_prepare_ws(struct work_struct *work)
> 	int ret;
> 
> 	invalid_bitmap = kmalloc(lm->sec_bitmap_len, GFP_KERNEL);
> -	if (!invalid_bitmap) {
> -		pr_err("pblk: could not allocate GC invalid bitmap\n");
> +	if (!invalid_bitmap)
> 		goto fail_free_ws;
> -	}
> 
> 	emeta_buf = pblk_malloc(lm->emeta_len[0], l_mg->emeta_alloc_type,
> 								GFP_KERNEL);
> --
> 2.15.1

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@...xlabs.com>


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