linux-kernel - Re: selinux: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in policydb

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Message-ID: <36ca17b3-8afe-cb9c-05bb-d406d37361e6@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:   Mon, 27 Mar 2017 07:56:57 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
Cc:     linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, selinux@...ho.nsa.gov,
        Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>,
        James Morris <james.l.morris@...cle.com>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
        Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>,
        William Roberts <william.c.roberts@...el.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
Subject: Re: selinux: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation
 in policydb_read()

> …, but I like the error message.

How do you think about to pass the flag “__GFP_NOWARN” if you like
this information more than the default error reporting of the function “kmalloc”?

Regards,
Markus