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

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Date:   Mon, 22 May 2017 22:24:17 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@...app.com>,
        Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...chiereds.net>,
        Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...marydata.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] xprtrdma: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in xprt_rdma_bc_setup()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 22:18:28 +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/sunrpc/xprtrdma/backchannel.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/backchannel.c b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/backchannel.c
index 24fedd4b117e..03f6b5840764 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/backchannel.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/backchannel.c
@@ -119,11 +119,9 @@ int xprt_rdma_bc_setup(struct rpc_xprt *xprt, unsigned int reqs)
 
 	for (i = 0; i < (reqs << 1); i++) {
 		rqst = kzalloc(sizeof(*rqst), GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (!rqst) {
-			pr_err("RPC:       %s: Failed to create bc rpc_rqst\n",
-			       __func__);
+		if (!rqst)
 			goto out_free;
-		}
+
 		dprintk("RPC:       %s: new rqst %p\n", __func__, rqst);
 
 		rqst->rq_xprt = &r_xprt->rx_xprt;
-- 
2.13.0