linux-kernel - [PATCH] hsi_char: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in hsc

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Date:   Fri, 2 Feb 2018 21:25:36 +0100
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>,
        Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] hsi_char: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in hsc_probe()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 21:21:12 +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/hsi/clients/hsi_char.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hsi/clients/hsi_char.c b/drivers/hsi/clients/hsi_char.c
index cf9c2a332ad8..9d2a6d64dfb8 100644
--- a/drivers/hsi/clients/hsi_char.c
+++ b/drivers/hsi/clients/hsi_char.c
@@ -697,10 +697,9 @@ static int hsc_probe(struct device *dev)
 	int i;
 
 	cl_data = kzalloc(sizeof(*cl_data), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!cl_data) {
-		dev_err(dev, "Could not allocate hsc_client_data\n");
+	if (!cl_data)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
+
 	hsc_baseminor = HSC_BASEMINOR(hsi_id(cl), hsi_port_id(cl));
 	if (!hsc_major) {
 		ret = alloc_chrdev_region(&hsc_dev, hsc_baseminor,
-- 
2.16.1