Re: [PATCH v2] gnss: core: added logging statement when kfifo_alloc fails

From: Joe Perches
Date: Thu Jul 11 2019 - 04:26:51 EST


On Tue, 2019-07-09 at 19:59 -0400, Keyur Patel wrote:
> Added missing logging statement when kfifo_alloc fails, to improve
> debugging.
[]
> Changes in v2:
> - fixed braces
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/gnss/core.c b/drivers/gnss/core.c
[]
> @@ -255,8 +255,10 @@ struct gnss_device *gnss_allocate_device(struct device *parent)
> init_waitqueue_head(&gdev->read_queue);
>
> ret = kfifo_alloc(&gdev->read_fifo, GNSS_READ_FIFO_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (ret)
> + if (ret) {
> + pr_err("kfifo_alloc failed\n");
> goto err_put_device;
> + }

This isn't really necessary as kfifo_alloc just
calls kmalloc_array and without the __GFP_NOWARN
flag, already does a dump_stack()