linux-kernel - [PATCH] ALSA: mixart: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in snd_mixart

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Date:   Sat, 12 Aug 2017 18:51:51 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     alsa-devel@...a-project.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: mixart: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in snd_mixart_create()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 18:45:42 +0200

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>
---
 sound/pci/mixart/mixart.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/pci/mixart/mixart.c b/sound/pci/mixart/mixart.c
index 6d7fbf30618b..84f6b2651bf3 100644
--- a/sound/pci/mixart/mixart.c
+++ b/sound/pci/mixart/mixart.c
@@ -1052,10 +1052,8 @@ static int snd_mixart_create(struct mixart_mgr *mgr, struct snd_card *card, int
 	};
 
 	chip = kzalloc(sizeof(*chip), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (! chip) {
-		dev_err(card->dev, "cannot allocate chip\n");
+	if (!chip)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
 
 	chip->card = card;
 	chip->chip_idx = idx;
-- 
2.14.0