On Wed, 2017-12-06 at 11:45 -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > On Wed, 6 Dec 2017, SF Markus Elfring wrote: > > Omit an extra message for a memory allocation failure in this function. Markus' typical terrible commit message. > > diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/hub.c b/drivers/usb/core/hub.c [] > > @@ -829,7 +829,6 @@ int usb_hub_clear_tt_buffer(struct urb *urb) > > */ > > clear = kmalloc(sizeof *clear, GFP_ATOMIC); > > if (clear == NULL) { > > - dev_err(&udev->dev, "can't save CLEAR_TT_BUFFER state\n"); > > /* FIXME recover somehow ... RESET_TT? */ > > return -ENOMEM; > > } > > Does the existing memory allocation error message include the > &udev->dev device name and driver name? If it doesn't, there will be > no way for the user to tell that the error message is related to the > device failure. No, but the effect is similar. OOM does a dump_stack() so this function's call tree is shown. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html