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

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Date:   Wed, 16 Aug 2017 15:27:54 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] UBIFS: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in dbg_check_orphans()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 10:18:59 +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>
---
 fs/ubifs/orphan.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ubifs/orphan.c b/fs/ubifs/orphan.c
index caf2d123e9ee..f5b01f9f9985 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/orphan.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/orphan.c
@@ -924,10 +924,8 @@ static int dbg_check_orphans(struct ubifs_info *c)
 	ci.leaf_cnt = 0;
 	ci.root = RB_ROOT;
 	ci.node = kmalloc(UBIFS_MAX_INO_NODE_SZ, GFP_NOFS);
-	if (!ci.node) {
-		ubifs_err(c, "out of memory");
+	if (!ci.node)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
 
 	err = dbg_scan_orphans(c, &ci);
 	if (err)
-- 
2.14.0