The patch titled Subject: lib/test: delete five error messages for failed memory allocations has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is lib-test-delete-five-error-messages-for-a-failed-memory-allocation.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/lib-test-delete-five-error-messages-for-a-failed-memory-allocation.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/lib-test-delete-five-error-messages-for-a-failed-memory-allocation.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: lib/test: delete five error messages for failed memory allocations Omit extra messages for a memory allocation failure in these functions. This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/410a4c5a-4ee0-6fcc-969c-103d8e496b78@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/test_kasan.c | 5 ++--- lib/test_kmod.c | 8 ++------ lib/test_list_sort.c | 9 +++------ 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff -puN lib/test_kasan.c~lib-test-delete-five-error-messages-for-a-failed-memory-allocation lib/test_kasan.c --- a/lib/test_kasan.c~lib-test-delete-five-error-messages-for-a-failed-memory-allocation +++ a/lib/test_kasan.c @@ -353,10 +353,9 @@ static noinline void __init memcg_accoun */ for (i = 0; i < 5; i++) { p = kmem_cache_alloc(cache, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!p) { - pr_err("Allocation failed\n"); + if (!p) goto free_cache; - } + kmem_cache_free(cache, p); msleep(100); } diff -puN lib/test_kmod.c~lib-test-delete-five-error-messages-for-a-failed-memory-allocation lib/test_kmod.c --- a/lib/test_kmod.c~lib-test-delete-five-error-messages-for-a-failed-memory-allocation +++ a/lib/test_kmod.c @@ -783,10 +783,8 @@ static int kmod_config_sync_info(struct free_test_dev_info(test_dev); test_dev->info = vzalloc(config->num_threads * sizeof(struct kmod_test_device_info)); - if (!test_dev->info) { - dev_err(test_dev->dev, "Cannot alloc test_dev info\n"); + if (!test_dev->info) return -ENOMEM; - } return 0; } @@ -1089,10 +1087,8 @@ static struct kmod_test_device *alloc_te struct miscdevice *misc_dev; test_dev = vzalloc(sizeof(struct kmod_test_device)); - if (!test_dev) { - pr_err("Cannot alloc test_dev\n"); + if (!test_dev) goto err_out; - } mutex_init(&test_dev->config_mutex); mutex_init(&test_dev->trigger_mutex); diff -puN lib/test_list_sort.c~lib-test-delete-five-error-messages-for-a-failed-memory-allocation lib/test_list_sort.c --- a/lib/test_list_sort.c~lib-test-delete-five-error-messages-for-a-failed-memory-allocation +++ a/lib/test_list_sort.c @@ -76,17 +76,14 @@ static int __init list_sort_test(void) pr_debug("start testing list_sort()\n"); elts = kcalloc(TEST_LIST_LEN, sizeof(*elts), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!elts) { - pr_err("error: cannot allocate memory\n"); + if (!elts) return err; - } for (i = 0; i < TEST_LIST_LEN; i++) { el = kmalloc(sizeof(*el), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!el) { - pr_err("error: cannot allocate memory\n"); + if (!el) goto exit; - } + /* force some equivalencies */ el->value = prandom_u32() % (TEST_LIST_LEN / 3); el->serial = i; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are lib-test-delete-five-error-messages-for-a-failed-memory-allocation.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html