Re: [PATCH v2] btrfs: Remove error messages for failed memory allocations

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Jun 11 2020 - 10:19:53 EST


On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 04:00:21PM +0200, Markus Elfring wrote:
> > As there is a dump_stack() done on memory allocation
> > failures, these messages might as well be deleted instead.
>
> * I imagine that an other wording variant can become clearer
> for the change description.
>
> * I suggest to reconsider the patch subject.
>
>
> â
> > +++ b/fs/btrfs/check-integrity.c
> > @@ -632,7 +632,6 @@ static int btrfsic_process_superblock(struct btrfsic_state *state,
> >
> > selected_super = kzalloc(sizeof(*selected_super), GFP_NOFS);
> > if (NULL == selected_super) {
> > - pr_info("btrfsic: error, kmalloc failed!\n");
> > return -ENOMEM;
> > }
>
>
> How do you think about to use the following error handling instead?
>
> if (!selected_super)
> return -ENOMEM;
>


Hi,

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