linux-kernel - Re: block/ps3vram: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in ps3vram_cache

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Message-ID: <3a657b44-2bc8-ee05-3a42-db7af354967e@infradead.org>
Date:   Mon, 7 Aug 2017 11:49:28 -0700
From:   Geoff Levand <geoff@...radead.org>
To:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Cc:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: block/ps3vram: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in ps3vram_cache_init()

On 08/07/2017 11:34 AM, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
>> I didn't consider one would be triggered by the kzalloc failure.
> 
> Do you reconsider any special system settings for further
> software evolution then?

Sorry, I don't quite understand your question.

I think your original patch is OK, and I would appreciate if
you added a check for failure of ps3vram_cache_init() in
ps3vram_probe().  If you decide not to add that check I'll
create a patch for it later.

If this doesn't answer your question, could you please
rephrase it?

-Geoff