linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/3] SCSI-sg: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in sg

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Date:   Fri, 25 Aug 2017 22:23:56 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, Doug Gilbert <dgilbert@...erlog.com>,
        "James E. J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] SCSI-sg: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in sg_alloc()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 21:48:11 +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>
---
 drivers/scsi/sg.c | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sg.c b/drivers/scsi/sg.c
index d7ff71e0c85c..8ca10a2fc1a0 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/sg.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sg.c
@@ -1404,11 +1404,8 @@ sg_alloc(struct gendisk *disk, struct scsi_device *scsidp)
 	u32 k;
 
 	sdp = kzalloc(sizeof(Sg_device), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!sdp) {
-		sdev_printk(KERN_WARNING, scsidp, "%s: kmalloc Sg_device "
-			    "failure\n", __func__);
+	if (!sdp)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
-	}
 
 	idr_preload(GFP_KERNEL);
 	write_lock_irqsave(&sg_index_lock, iflags);
-- 
2.14.0