linux-kernel - [PATCH] i2c-ibm_iic: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in iic

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Date:   Fri, 2 Feb 2018 17:45:06 +0100
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org, Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] i2c-ibm_iic: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in iic_probe()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 17:24:57 +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/i2c/busses/i2c-ibm_iic.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ibm_iic.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ibm_iic.c
index 961c5f42d956..1bd4d6dde0fe 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ibm_iic.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ibm_iic.c
@@ -702,10 +702,8 @@ static int iic_probe(struct platform_device *ofdev)
 	int ret;
 
 	dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*dev), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!dev) {
-		dev_err(&ofdev->dev, "failed to allocate device data\n");
+	if (!dev)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
 
 	platform_set_drvdata(ofdev, dev);
 
-- 
2.16.1