linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] NFC: digital: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in digital_in

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Message-ID: <94b99b09-8f6f-3532-0738-b2edba96dd26@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:   Mon, 22 May 2017 15:00:17 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
        Thierry Escande <thierry.escande@...labora.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] NFC: digital: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in digital_in_send()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 14:24:24 +0200

Omit an extra message for a memory allocation failure in this function.

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Link: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/LCJ16-Refactor_Strings-WSang_0.pdf
Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
---
 net/nfc/digital_core.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/nfc/digital_core.c b/net/nfc/digital_core.c
index 3baf91f3ef80..8e02a3e1b319 100644
--- a/net/nfc/digital_core.c
+++ b/net/nfc/digital_core.c
@@ -710,7 +710,5 @@ static int digital_in_send(struct nfc_dev *nfc_dev, struct nfc_target *target,
-	if (!data_exch) {
-		pr_err("Failed to allocate data_exch struct\n");
+	if (!data_exch)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
 
 	data_exch->cb = cb;
 	data_exch->cb_context = cb_context;
-- 
2.13.0