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

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Message-ID: <3b02a3d1-17c9-3d8b-7edb-db640c0ea017@oracle.com>
Date:   Mon, 22 May 2017 12:24:38 -0700
From:   Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>
To:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        rds-devel@....oracle.com, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] RDS: IB: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in rds_ib_add_one()

On 5/22/2017 7:11 AM, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 15:34:28 +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/rds/ib.c | 5 +----
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/rds/ib.c b/net/rds/ib.c
> index 7a64c8db81ab..c5514d058171 100644
> --- a/net/rds/ib.c
> +++ b/net/rds/ib.c
> @@ -166,8 +166,5 @@ static void rds_ib_add_one(struct ib_device *device)
> -	if (!rds_ibdev->vector_load) {
> -		pr_err("RDS/IB: %s failed to allocate vector memory\n",
> -			__func__);
> +	if (!rds_ibdev->vector_load)
>   		goto put_dev;
> -	}
>   
Well the ENOMEM is not carried here so the message was usefu
but its not critical so its fine to clean that up.

Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>