linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/3] misc/ti-st: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in kim

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Date:   Wed, 10 Jan 2018 16:32:23 +0100
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] misc/ti-st: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in kim_probe()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 16:04:52 +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/ti-st/st_kim.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/ti-st/st_kim.c b/drivers/misc/ti-st/st_kim.c
index b77aacafc3fc..68ebdf466b17 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/ti-st/st_kim.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/ti-st/st_kim.c
@@ -736,10 +736,9 @@ static int kim_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	}
 
 	kim_gdata = kzalloc(sizeof(struct kim_data_s), GFP_ATOMIC);
-	if (!kim_gdata) {
-		pr_err("no mem to allocate");
+	if (!kim_gdata)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
+
 	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, kim_gdata);
 
 	err = st_core_init(&kim_gdata->core_data);
-- 
2.15.1