linux-kernel - [PATCH] kernel/trace: Delete five error messages for a failed memory allocation

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Message-ID: <c0d21fa1-a40f-92e5-821c-66e2596112c9@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:   Sat, 7 Oct 2017 16:15:14 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] kernel/trace: Delete five error messages for a failed memory
 allocation

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 16:10:06 +0200

Omit extra messages for a memory allocation failure in these functions.

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c   | 1 -
 kernel/trace/trace_probe.c    | 5 ++---
 kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c | 4 +---
 kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c   | 2 --
 4 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
index 8a907e12b6b9..79a2ee2fc1f4 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
@@ -776,7 +776,6 @@ static int create_trace_kprobe(int argc, char **argv)
 		}
 
 		if (!parg->name) {
-			pr_info("Failed to allocate argument[%d] name.\n", i);
 			ret = -ENOMEM;
 			goto error;
 		}
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
index 52478f033f88..cf544d899eaa 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
@@ -545,10 +545,9 @@ int traceprobe_parse_probe_arg(char *arg, ssize_t *size,
 		return -ENOSPC;
 	}
 	parg->comm = kstrdup(arg, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!parg->comm) {
-		pr_info("Failed to allocate memory for command '%s'.\n", arg);
+	if (!parg->comm)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
+
 	t = strchr(parg->comm, ':');
 	if (t) {
 		arg[t - parg->comm] = '\0';
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c b/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c
index cb917cebae29..6a2a57def182 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c
@@ -250,10 +250,8 @@ static int trace_selftest_ops(struct trace_array *tr, int cnt)
 
 	/* Add a dynamic probe */
 	dyn_ops = kzalloc(sizeof(*dyn_ops), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!dyn_ops) {
-		printk("MEMORY ERROR ");
+	if (!dyn_ops)
 		goto out;
-	}
 
 	dyn_ops->func = trace_selftest_test_dyn_func;
 
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c
index 4525e0271a53..9131f7372502 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c
@@ -492,7 +492,6 @@ static int create_trace_uprobe(int argc, char **argv)
 	tu->filename = kstrdup(filename, GFP_KERNEL);
 
 	if (!tu->filename) {
-		pr_info("Failed to allocate filename.\n");
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		goto error;
 	}
@@ -518,7 +517,6 @@ static int create_trace_uprobe(int argc, char **argv)
 		}
 
 		if (!parg->name) {
-			pr_info("Failed to allocate argument[%d] name.\n", i);
 			ret = -ENOMEM;
 			goto error;
 		}
-- 
2.14.2