linux-kernel - [PATCH] SCSI-sd: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in sd_revalidate

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Date:   Fri, 25 Aug 2017 21:37:26 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        "James E. J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] SCSI-sd: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in sd_revalidate_disk()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 21:34:44 +0200

Omit an extra message for a memory allocation failure in this function.

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
---
 drivers/scsi/sd.c | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sd.c b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
index bea36adeee17..1f15c31e5a8a 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/sd.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
@@ -3067,11 +3067,8 @@ static int sd_revalidate_disk(struct gendisk *disk)
 		goto out;
 
 	buffer = kmalloc(SD_BUF_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!buffer) {
-		sd_printk(KERN_WARNING, sdkp, "sd_revalidate_disk: Memory "
-			  "allocation failure.\n");
+	if (!buffer)
 		goto out;
-	}
 
 	sd_spinup_disk(sdkp);
 
-- 
2.14.0