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

[Michael Ellerman]

Yi Wang <wang.yi59@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> From: Liao Pingfang <liao.pingfang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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