linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] powerpc/nvram: Replace kmalloc with kzalloc in the error message

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Message-ID: <87r1v3idzi.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au>
Date:   Fri, 29 May 2020 14:04:01 +1000
From:   Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:     Yi Wang <wang.yi59@....com.cn>
Cc:     benh@...nel.crashing.org, paulus@...ba.org, keescook@...omium.org,
        anton@...msg.org, ccross@...roid.com, tony.luck@...el.com,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
        allison@...utok.net, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xue.zhihong@....com.cn,
        wang.yi59@....com.cn, wang.liang82@....com.cn,
        Liao Pingfang <liao.pingfang@....com.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/nvram: Replace kmalloc with kzalloc in the error message

Yi Wang <wang.yi59@....com.cn> writes:
> From: Liao Pingfang <liao.pingfang@....com.cn>
>
> Use kzalloc instead of kmalloc in the error message according to
> the previous kzalloc() call.

Please just remove the message instead, it's a tiny allocation that's
unlikely to ever fail, and the caller will print an error anyway.

cheers

> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
> index fb4f610..c3a0c8d 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
> @@ -892,7 +892,7 @@ loff_t __init nvram_create_partition(const char *name, int sig,
>  	/* Create our OS partition */
>  	new_part = kzalloc(sizeof(*new_part), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!new_part) {
> -		pr_err("%s: kmalloc failed\n", __func__);
> +		pr_err("%s: kzalloc failed\n", __func__);
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  	}
>  
> -- 
> 2.9.5