linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/6] drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix unnecessary OOM

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Date:   Mon, 16 Nov 2020 11:21:48 +0000
From:   Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>
To:     Matheus Castello <matheus@...tello.eng.br>
Cc:     kys@...rosoft.com, haiyangz@...rosoft.com, sthemmin@...rosoft.com,
        wei.liu@...nel.org, sashal@...nel.org, Tianyu.Lan@...rosoft.com,
        decui@...rosoft.com, mikelley@...rosoft.com,
        sunilmut@...rosoft.com, linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix unnecessary OOM_MESSAGE

On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 04:57:33PM -0300, Matheus Castello wrote:
> Fixed checkpatch warning: Possible unnecessary 'out of memory' message
> checkpatch(OOM_MESSAGE)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matheus Castello <matheus@...tello.eng.br>
> ---
>  drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c b/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c
> index 09d8236a51cf..774b88dd0e15 100644
> --- a/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c
> @@ -1989,10 +1989,8 @@ struct hv_device *vmbus_device_create(const guid_t *type,
>  	struct hv_device *child_device_obj;
> 
>  	child_device_obj = kzalloc(sizeof(struct hv_device), GFP_KERNEL);
> -	if (!child_device_obj) {
> -		pr_err("Unable to allocate device object for child device\n");
> +	if (!child_device_obj)

The generic OOM message would give you a stack dump but not as specific
/ clear as the message you deleted.

Also, the original intent of this check was to check for things like

    printk("Out of memory");

which was clearly redundant. The message we print here is not that.

See https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/10/382 .

Wei.

>  		return NULL;
> -	}
> 
>  	child_device_obj->channel = channel;
>  	guid_copy(&child_device_obj->dev_type, type);
> --
> 2.28.0
>