Subject: Re: block/ps3vram: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in ps3vram_cache_init()
To: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
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Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2017 18:27:04 +0200
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>> 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,

Do you find the default allocation failure report insufficient?


> since the return value of ps3vram_cache_init() is not checked.

Are there any more update candidates to consider for better exception handling?

Regards,
Markus