[PATCH] block/ps3vram: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in ps3vram_cache_init()

Geoff Levand geoff at infradead.org
Tue Aug 8 01:10:59 AEST 2017


On 08/07/2017 03:52 AM, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring at users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2017 12:37:01 +0200
> 
> Omit an extra message for a memory allocation failure in this function.
> 
> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

NACK

When a user asks me for help I would certainly like to get 
'Could not allocate cache tags' as apposed to nothing, since
the return value of ps3vram_cache_init() is not checked.

If you want to make an improvement please add a check for
success of ps3vram_cache_init() in ps3vram_probe().

-Geoff



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