linux-kernel - [PATCH] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Drop error message when 'No request id available'

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Date:   Mon,  1 Mar 2021 20:13:48 +0100
From:   "Andrea Parri (Microsoft)" <parri.andrea@...il.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kys@...rosoft.com, haiyangz@...rosoft.com, sthemmin@...rosoft.com,
        wei.liu@...nel.org, linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org,
        mikelley@...rosoft.com,
        "Andrea Parri (Microsoft)" <parri.andrea@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Drop error message when 'No request id available'

Running out of request IDs on a channel essentially produces the same
effect as running out of space in the ring buffer, in that -EAGAIN is
returned.  The error message in hv_ringbuffer_write() should either be
dropped (since we don't output a message when the ring buffer is full)
or be made conditional/debug-only.

Suggested-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri (Microsoft) <parri.andrea@...il.com>
Fixes: e8b7db38449ac ("Drivers: hv: vmbus: Add vmbus_requestor data structure for VMBus hardening")
---
 drivers/hv/ring_buffer.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hv/ring_buffer.c b/drivers/hv/ring_buffer.c
index 35833d4d1a1dc..ecd82ebfd5bc4 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/ring_buffer.c
@@ -313,7 +313,6 @@ int hv_ringbuffer_write(struct vmbus_channel *channel,
 		rqst_id = vmbus_next_request_id(&channel->requestor, requestid);
 		if (rqst_id == VMBUS_RQST_ERROR) {
 			spin_unlock_irqrestore(&outring_info->ring_lock, flags);
-			pr_err("No request id available\n");
 			return -EAGAIN;
 		}
 	}
-- 
2.25.1