On Wed, 2018-10-17 at 14:41 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> With compression initialization now separated from pstore_register(),
> there is no longer a good reason to do compression method selection
> during fs init. Instead, merge everything together into the late init.
> Additionally cleans up the reporting to be more clear.
[]
> diff --git a/fs/pstore/platform.c b/fs/pstore/platform.c
[]
> @@ -274,36 +274,56 @@ static int pstore_decompress(void *in, void *out,
[]
> - big_oops_buf = kmalloc(big_oops_buf_sz, GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!big_oops_buf) {
> - pr_err("allocate compression buffer error!\n");
> + buf = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!buf) {
> + pr_err("Failed %d byte compression buffer allocation for: %s\n",
> + size, zbackend->name);
Given that there is a generic OOM message emitted on
kmalloc failures, rather than expanding the unnecessary
alloc failure message, how about just deleting it instead?
