All its callers depends on the return value of -ENOBUFS to reallocate a bigger buffer and retry the receiving. So there's no need to call pr_err() here since it was not a real issue, otherwise syslog will be flooded by this false warning. Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/hv/channel.c | 6 +----- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/hv/channel.c b/drivers/hv/channel.c index 284cf66..531a593 100644 --- a/drivers/hv/channel.c +++ b/drivers/hv/channel.c @@ -808,12 +808,8 @@ int vmbus_recvpacket_raw(struct vmbus_channel *channel, void *buffer, *buffer_actual_len = packetlen; - if (packetlen > bufferlen) { - pr_err("Buffer too small - needed %d bytes but " - "got space for only %d bytes\n", - packetlen, bufferlen); + if (packetlen > bufferlen) return -ENOBUFS; - } *requestid = desc.trans_id; -- 1.7.1 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel