linux-kernel - Re: tipc: Delete error messages for failed memory allocations in three functions

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Date:   Tue, 23 May 2017 09:39:37 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
        tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>,
        Ying Xue <ying.xue@...driver.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tipc: Delete error messages for failed memory allocations in
 three functions

On Tue, 2017-05-23 at 18:23 +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > tipc_subseq_alloc does a kcalloc (memset to 0),
> > half of which is immediately overwritten.
> > 
> > In other words, don't just blindly remove stuff,
> > understand what it does and improve it.
> 
> Do you suggest another specific source code transformation pattern here?

For the somewhat hard-of-thinking,
something like krealloc would do nicely.