On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 12:08:29PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > On 8/19/17 6:47 AM, SF Markus Elfring wrote: > > From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2017 13:04:50 +0200 > > > > Omit an extra message for a memory allocation failure in this function. > > I might be dense, but what makes this message "extra?" > > (I suppose kmalloc squawks too if it fails, but is Coccinelle > now warning about explicit memory allocation failure warnings?) > Yeah... Checkpatch complains that the kmalloc squawks is enough. "WARNING: Possible unnecessary 'out of memory' message". This allocation is small so it's guaranteed to succeed in current kernels. regards, dan carpenter
