Re: [PATCH] connector: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in cn_queue_alloc_callback_entry()

[Evgeniy Polyakov]

Hi everyone

27.08.2017, 22:25, "SF Markus Elfring" <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 21:18:37 +0200
>
> Omit an extra message for a memory allocation failure in this function.
>
> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good to me, thanks Markus.
There is virtually zero useful information in this print if we are in the situation, when kernel can not allocate
a few bytes to run connector queue.

Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@xxxxxxxxxxx>

kernel-janitors@ please queue this patch up

> ---
> Âdrivers/connector/cn_queue.c | 4 +---
> Â1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/connector/cn_queue.c b/drivers/connector/cn_queue.c
> index 1f8bf054d11c..e4f31d679f02 100644
> --- a/drivers/connector/cn_queue.c
> +++ b/drivers/connector/cn_queue.c
> @@ -40,10 +40,8 @@ cn_queue_alloc_callback_entry(struct cn_queue_dev *dev, const char *name,
> ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂstruct cn_callback_entry *cbq;
>
> ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂcbq = kzalloc(sizeof(*cbq), GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!cbq) {
> - pr_err("Failed to create new callback queue.\n");
> + if (!cbq)
> ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂreturn NULL;
> - }
>
> ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂatomic_set(&cbq->refcnt, 1);
>
> --
> 2.14.1