Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Sep 2022 12:24:56 +0200 | From | Florian Westphal <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH net] rhashtable: fix crash due to mm api change |
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Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote: > Only in the case of kvzalloc. We expect kzalloc to fail, that's > why it gets NOWARN. There is no sane reason for kvzalloc to fail > so it should warn.
To me a WARN() only has one purpose: It will get reported to mailing list and a developer can use that to develop a patch/fix.
In memory allocation failure, there is no bug, so nothing to fix, so WARN is useless.
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