netdev - [PATCH net-next 1/4] vrf: don't panic on cache create failure

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Date:	Wed, 19 Aug 2015 06:27:07 +0300
From:	Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	dsa@...ulusnetworks.com, shm@...ulusnetworks.com,
	davem@...emloft.net,
	Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 1/4] vrf: don't panic on cache create failure

From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>

It's pointless to panic on cache create failure when that case is handled
and even more so since it's not a kernel-wide fatal problem so don't
panic.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
---
 drivers/net/vrf.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/vrf.c b/drivers/net/vrf.c
index 4aa06450fafa..01dc91562a88 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vrf.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vrf.c
@@ -649,7 +649,7 @@ static int __init vrf_init_module(void)
 	vrf_dst_ops.kmem_cachep =
 		kmem_cache_create("vrf_ip_dst_cache",
 				  sizeof(struct rtable), 0,
-				  SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN | SLAB_PANIC,
+				  SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN,
 				  NULL);
 
 	if (!vrf_dst_ops.kmem_cachep)
-- 
2.4.3

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