Re: [PATCH] net: atm: Replace kmalloc with kzalloc in the error message

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Fri May 29 2020 - 05:22:57 EST


On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 09:01:42AM +0800, Yi Wang wrote:
> From: Liao Pingfang <liao.pingfang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Use kzalloc instead of kmalloc in the error message according to
> the previous kzalloc() call.

Looking into the context (atomic!) and error message itself I would rather drop
message completely.

> Signed-off-by: Liao Pingfang <liao.pingfang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/atm/lec.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/atm/lec.c b/net/atm/lec.c
> index ca37f5a..33033d7 100644
> --- a/net/atm/lec.c
> +++ b/net/atm/lec.c
> @@ -1537,7 +1537,7 @@ static struct lec_arp_table *make_entry(struct lec_priv *priv,
>
> to_return = kzalloc(sizeof(struct lec_arp_table), GFP_ATOMIC);
> if (!to_return) {
> - pr_info("LEC: Arp entry kmalloc failed\n");
> + pr_info("LEC: Arp entry kzalloc failed\n");
> return NULL;
> }
> ether_addr_copy(to_return->mac_addr, mac_addr);
> --
> 2.9.5
>

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko