linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/3] GenWQE: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in genwqe_user

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Date:   Mon, 8 Jan 2018 10:41:10 +0100
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Frank Haverkamp <haver@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jörg-Stephan Vogt <jsvogt@...ibm.com>,
        Michael Jung <MIJUNG@...ibm.com>,
        Michael Rüttger <michael@...ra.de>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] GenWQE: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in genwqe_user_vmap()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 09:37:23 +0100

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/misc/genwqe/card_utils.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/genwqe/card_utils.c b/drivers/misc/genwqe/card_utils.c
index 8f2e6442d88b..55c389a9e7d7 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/genwqe/card_utils.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/genwqe/card_utils.c
@@ -593,7 +593,6 @@ int genwqe_user_vmap(struct genwqe_dev *cd, struct dma_mapping *m, void *uaddr,
 			       sizeof(struct page *) + sizeof(dma_addr_t),
 			       GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!m->page_list) {
-		dev_err(&pci_dev->dev, "err: alloc page_list failed\n");
 		m->nr_pages = 0;
 		m->u_vaddr = NULL;
 		m->size = 0;	/* mark unused and not added */
-- 
2.15.1