Re: [PATCH] hfsplus: remove xattr error message

On Sat, 2026-04-11 at 13:53 +0100, Colin Ian King wrote:
> When exercising hfsplus with the stress-ng xattr stressor a large
> quantity of somewhat unhelpful error messages "hfsplus: xattr exists
> yet" spam the kernel log. Remove these.

We can convert it into hfs_dbg() and to add showing inode ID + name. What do you
think?

Also, there are other pr_err() in xattr code that can be converted into
hfs_dbg(). Could you please take a look into other ones too?

Thanks,
Slava.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <[email protected]>
> ---
>  fs/hfsplus/xattr.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/hfsplus/xattr.c b/fs/hfsplus/xattr.c
> index c70bb6f494b2..e10e1d8a5862 100644
> --- a/fs/hfsplus/xattr.c
> +++ b/fs/hfsplus/xattr.c
> @@ -301,7 +301,6 @@ int __hfsplus_setxattr(struct inode *inode, const char *name,
>  
>  	if (!strcmp_xattr_finder_info(name)) {
>  		if (flags & XATTR_CREATE) {
> -			pr_err("xattr exists yet\n");
>  			err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
>  			goto end_setxattr;
>  		}
> @@ -348,7 +347,6 @@ int __hfsplus_setxattr(struct inode *inode, const char *name,
>  
>  	if (hfsplus_attr_exists(inode, name)) {
>  		if (flags & XATTR_CREATE) {
> -			pr_err("xattr exists yet\n");
>  			err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
>  			goto end_setxattr;
>  		}