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Re: ext4: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in ext4_multi_mount_protect()

From SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: ext4: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in ext4_multi_mount_protect()
Date 2017-08-19 20:10 +0200
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>> Omit an extra message for a memory allocation failure in this function.
> 
> I might be dense, but what makes this message "extra?"
> 
> (I suppose kmalloc squawks too if it fails,

Do you find the default allocation failure report sufficient?


> but is Coccinelle now warning about explicit memory allocation failure warnings?)

This software tool can help to find source code places for further
development considerations. Would you like to clarify a corresponding
search pattern a bit more?

Regards,
Markus

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[PATCH 1/2] ext4: Delete an error message for a failed memory  allocation in ext4_multi_mount_protect() SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2017-08-19 13:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 1/2] ext4: Delete an error message for a failed memory  allocation in ext4_multi_mount_protect() Eric Sandeen <esandeen@redhat.com> - 2017-08-19 19:10 +0200
    Re: ext4: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in  ext4_multi_mount_protect() SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2017-08-19 20:10 +0200
      Re: ext4: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in  ext4_multi_mount_protect() Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2017-08-24 19:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] ext4: Delete an error message for a failed memory  allocation in ext4_multi_mount_protect() Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> - 2017-08-24 21:20 +0200

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