linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/3] jfs: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in diMount()

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Message-ID: <12f705e1-7ba2-af59-b86d-91134153dca9@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:   Fri, 18 Aug 2017 15:35:30 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     jfs-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...nel.org>,
        Fabian Frederick <fabf@...net.be>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] jfs: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in diMount()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 09:19:24 +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/jfs/jfs_imap.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c b/fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c
index f36ef68905a7..da8051299e47 100644
--- a/fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c
+++ b/fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c
@@ -119,7 +119,5 @@ int diMount(struct inode *ipimap)
-	if (imap == NULL) {
-		jfs_err("diMount: kmalloc returned NULL!");
+	if (!imap)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
 
 	/* read the on-disk inode map control structure. */
 
-- 
2.14.0