netdev - [PATCH net-next] kcm: Remove unnecessary SLAB_PANIC for kmem_cache_create() in kcm

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Date:   Fri, 22 Feb 2019 14:15:30 +0800
From:   Yue Haibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>
To:     <davem@...emloft.net>, <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>,
        <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, <tom@...ntonium.net>,
        <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>
CC:     <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] kcm: Remove unnecessary SLAB_PANIC for kmem_cache_create() in kcm_init

From: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>

There has check NULL on kmem_cache_create on failure in kcm_init,
no need use SLAB_PANIC to panic the system.

Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>
---
 net/kcm/kcmsock.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/kcm/kcmsock.c b/net/kcm/kcmsock.c
index 571d824..c5c5ab6 100644
--- a/net/kcm/kcmsock.c
+++ b/net/kcm/kcmsock.c
@@ -2036,13 +2036,13 @@ static int __init kcm_init(void)
 
 	kcm_muxp = kmem_cache_create("kcm_mux_cache",
 				     sizeof(struct kcm_mux), 0,
-				     SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN | SLAB_PANIC, NULL);
+				     SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, NULL);
 	if (!kcm_muxp)
 		goto fail;
 
 	kcm_psockp = kmem_cache_create("kcm_psock_cache",
 				       sizeof(struct kcm_psock), 0,
-					SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN | SLAB_PANIC, NULL);
+					SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, NULL);
 	if (!kcm_psockp)
 		goto fail;
 
-- 
2.7.0