>> Omit an extra message for a memory allocation failure in these functions.
>>
>> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
>
> Please include the problem
Do you find the wording “WARNING: Possible unnecessary 'out of memory' message”
from the script “checkpatch.pl” more reasonable?
> and log from Coccinelle software
There is no log file from which I could extract something for this case.
> in any future patches for the issues detected by Coccinelle.
Would you like to help a bit to make the commit message better for your needs?
>> @@ -466,7 +465,6 @@ static void stub_recv_cmd_submit(struct stub_device
>> *sdev,
>> priv->urb->setup_packet = kmemdup(&pdu->u.cmd_submit.setup, 8,
>> GFP_KERNEL);
>> if (!priv->urb->setup_packet) {
>> - dev_err(&udev->dev, "allocate setup_packet\n");
>
> If Coccinelle found this as an extra message,
> there is something wrong with the Coccinelle script.
The source code analysis approach could be improved somehow.
> This is not an extra message.
There can be different opinions around the handling of such exceptional
situations.
> This message is for the second kmemdup() failure and is necessary.
This function is called only once within the implementation of
the function “stub_recv_cmd_submit” (and in this source file).
Do you find a default Linux allocation failure report insufficient?
Regards,
Markus
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