# Re: \[PATCH\] block/ps3vram: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in ps3vram\_cache\_init()

- From: Joe Perches \<joe@perches.com\>
- Date: 2017-08-07 15:13:46 
- List: linuxppc-dev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2017/08/5061231
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2017/08/5060940/t.md

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On Mon, 2017-08-07 at 08:10 -0700, Geoff Levand wrote:
> On 08/07/2017 03:52 AM, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > Omit an extra message for a memory allocation failure in this function.
> NACK
> 
> When a user asks me for help I would certainly like to get 
> 'Could not allocate cache tags' as apposed to nothing, since
> the return value of ps3vram_cache_init() is not checked.

You still get a dump_stack on alloc failure.
```