RE: [PATCH 1/2] ASoC: da7213: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in da7213_fw_to_pdata()

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Fri Nov 24 2017 - 06:33:14 EST




On Fri, 24 Nov 2017, Adam Thomson wrote:

> On 23 November 2017 17:33, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
>
> > From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 17:56:54 +0100
> >
> > Omit an extra message for a memory allocation failure in this function.
>
> I'm not sure this is an extra message. We don't return -ENOMEM as a result of
> this operation and probe won't fail on this. So does devm_kzalloc() print error
> messages?

Unless there is NO WARN, a backtrace will be generated in the out of
memory case.

julia

>
> > This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > sound/soc/codecs/da7213.c | 4 +---
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/sound/soc/codecs/da7213.c b/sound/soc/codecs/da7213.c
> > index 41d9b1da27c2..d1b77a0e3b74 100644
> > --- a/sound/soc/codecs/da7213.c
> > +++ b/sound/soc/codecs/da7213.c
> > @@ -1654,10 +1654,8 @@ static struct da7213_platform_data
> > u32 fw_val32;
> >
> > pdata = devm_kzalloc(codec->dev, sizeof(*pdata), GFP_KERNEL);
> > - if (!pdata) {
> > - dev_warn(codec->dev, "Failed to allocate memory for pdata\n");
> > + if (!pdata)
> > return NULL;
> > - }
> >
> > if (device_property_read_u32(dev, "dlg,micbias1-lvl", &fw_val32) >= 0)
> > pdata->micbias1_lvl = da7213_of_micbias_lvl(codec, fw_val32);
> > --
> > 2.15.0
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