linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] powerpc-ps3: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in update_flash

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Date:   Tue, 17 Oct 2017 20:55:34 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Geoff Levand <geoff@...radead.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc-ps3: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in update_flash_db()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 20:00:31 +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>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/os-area.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/os-area.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/os-area.c
index 3db53e8aff92..f2a8875e25d1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/os-area.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/os-area.c
@@ -625,10 +625,8 @@ static int update_flash_db(void)
 	/* Read in header and db from flash. */
 
 	header = kmalloc(buf_len, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!header) {
-		pr_debug("%s: kmalloc failed\n", __func__);
+	if (!header)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
 
 	count = os_area_flash_read(header, buf_len, 0);
 	if (count < 0) {
-- 
2.14.2