xen: drop writing error messages to xenstore
authorJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Tue, 9 Oct 2018 16:09:59 +0000 (18:09 +0200)
committerJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Fri, 26 Oct 2018 07:17:16 +0000 (09:17 +0200)
xenbus_va_dev_error() will try to write error messages to Xenstore
under the error/<dev-name>/error node (with <dev-name> something like
"device/vbd/51872"). This will fail normally and another message
about this failure is added to dmesg.

I believe this is a remnant from very ancient times, as it was added
in the first pvops rush of commits in 2007.

So remove the additional message when writing to Xenstore failed as
a minimum step.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracel.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_client.c

index a1c17000129ba1cb4465df0bc679a0756f8937a3..e17ca8156171318394bd41f08a7e27ef8683d70a 100644 (file)
@@ -278,10 +278,8 @@ static void xenbus_va_dev_error(struct xenbus_device *dev, int err,
        dev_err(&dev->dev, "%s\n", printf_buffer);
 
        path_buffer = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "error/%s", dev->nodename);
-       if (!path_buffer ||
-           xenbus_write(XBT_NIL, path_buffer, "error", printf_buffer))
-               dev_err(&dev->dev, "failed to write error node for %s (%s)\n",
-                       dev->nodename, printf_buffer);
+       if (path_buffer)
+               xenbus_write(XBT_NIL, path_buffer, "error", printf_buffer);
 
        kfree(printf_buffer);
        kfree(path_buffer);