linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] sctp: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in sctp

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Date:   Mon, 22 May 2017 13:56:58 -0300
From:   Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
To:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:     linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
        Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] sctp: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in sctp_init()

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 06:38:21PM +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 17:28:14 +0200
> 
> Omit an extra message for a memory allocation failure in this function.
> 
> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
> 
> Link: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/LCJ16-Refactor_Strings-WSang_0.pdf
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> ---
>  net/sctp/protocol.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/sctp/protocol.c b/net/sctp/protocol.c
> index 2b1a6215bd2f..5e7c8a344770 100644
> --- a/net/sctp/protocol.c
> +++ b/net/sctp/protocol.c
> @@ -1447,5 +1447,4 @@ static __init int sctp_init(void)
>  	if (!sctp_ep_hashtable) {
> -		pr_err("Failed endpoint_hash alloc\n");

Okay but then why not also delete the one a few lines below this one:
        if (!sctp_port_hashtable) {
                pr_err("Failed bind hash alloc\n");
                status = -ENOMEM;
                goto err_bhash_alloc;
        }
Seems the same pattern to me.

>  		status = -ENOMEM;
>  		goto err_ehash_alloc;
>  	}
> -- 
> 2.13.0
> 
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