From: SF Markus Elfring Date: Sat, 20 May 2017 20:00:30 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] vlynq: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in vlynq_probe() Message-Id: <412dece0-b79a-0587-9ee7-8cfd72c19a40@users.sourceforge.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Florian Fainelli , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Cc: LKML , Wolfram Sang From: Markus Elfring Date: Sat, 20 May 2017 21:53:55 +0200 Omit an extra message for a memory allocation failure in this function. This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software. Link: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/LCJ16-Refactor_Strings-WSang_0.pdf Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring --- drivers/vlynq/vlynq.c | 5 +---- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/vlynq/vlynq.c b/drivers/vlynq/vlynq.c index c0227f9418eb..08173463e7eb 100644 --- a/drivers/vlynq/vlynq.c +++ b/drivers/vlynq/vlynq.c @@ -684,11 +684,8 @@ static int vlynq_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) return -ENODEV; dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*dev), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!dev) { - printk(KERN_ERR - "vlynq: failed to allocate device structure\n"); + if (!dev) return -ENOMEM; - } dev->id = pdev->id; dev->dev.bus = &vlynq_bus_type; -- 2.13.0