linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] zpool: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in zpool_create

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Date:   Mon, 14 Aug 2017 13:15:34 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     linux-mm@...ck.org, Dan Streetman <ddstreet@...e.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] zpool: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in zpool_create_pool()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 12:57:16 +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>
---
 mm/zpool.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/zpool.c b/mm/zpool.c
index fd3ff719c32c..fe1943f7d844 100644
--- a/mm/zpool.c
+++ b/mm/zpool.c
@@ -172,7 +172,6 @@ struct zpool *zpool_create_pool(const char *type, const char *name, gfp_t gfp,
 
 	zpool = kmalloc(sizeof(*zpool), gfp);
 	if (!zpool) {
-		pr_err("couldn't create zpool - out of memory\n");
 		zpool_put_driver(driver);
 		return NULL;
 	}
-- 
2.14.0