Re: [PATCH 5/6] drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix unnecessary OOM_MESSAGE

[Wei Liu]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 11:21:48AM +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 04:57:33PM -0300, Matheus Castello wrote:
> > Fixed checkpatch warning: Possible unnecessary 'out of memory' message
> > checkpatch(OOM_MESSAGE)
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Matheus Castello <matheus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c | 4 +---
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c b/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c
> > index 09d8236a51cf..774b88dd0e15 100644
> > --- a/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c
> > +++ b/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c
> > @@ -1989,10 +1989,8 @@ struct hv_device *vmbus_device_create(const guid_t *type,
> >  	struct hv_device *child_device_obj;
> > 
> >  	child_device_obj = kzalloc(sizeof(struct hv_device), GFP_KERNEL);
> > -	if (!child_device_obj) {
> > -		pr_err("Unable to allocate device object for child device\n");
> > +	if (!child_device_obj)
> 
> The generic OOM message would give you a stack dump but not as specific
> / clear as the message you deleted.
> 
> Also, the original intent of this check was to check for things like
> 
>     printk("Out of memory");
> 
> which was clearly redundant. The message we print here is not that.
> 
> See https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/10/382 .
> 

In case my message is not clear, I think this pr_err should stay. ;-)

Wei.