[PATCH] powerpc/nvram: Replace kmalloc with kzalloc in the error message

[Michael Ellerman]

Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring at web.de> writes:
>> Please just remove the message instead, it's a tiny allocation that's
>> unlikely to ever fail, and the caller will print an error anyway.
>
> How do you think about to take another look at a previous update suggestion
> like the following?
>
> powerpc/nvram: Delete three error messages for a failed memory allocation
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/patch/00845261-8528-d011-d3b8-e9355a231d3a@users.sourceforge.net/
> https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/00845261-8528-d011-d3b8-e9355a231d3a@users.sourceforge.net/
> https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/752720/
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/1/19/537

That deleted the messages from nvram_scan_partitions(), but neither of
the callers of nvram_scan_paritions() check its return value or print
anything if it fails. So removing those messages would make those
failures silent which is not what we want.

cheers