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

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Message-ID: <fa1210a3-ced1-f39e-2cb8-5fe258778336@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:   Tue, 29 Aug 2017 13:04:49 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     linux-media@...r.kernel.org, Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@...sung.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Geliang Tang <geliangtang@...il.com>,
        Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@...co.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Sean Young <sean@...s.org>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa-dev@...g-engineering.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] [media] imon: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in imon_init_intf0()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 12:40:07 +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/media/rc/imon.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/rc/imon.c b/drivers/media/rc/imon.c
index bd76534a2749..e6978f1b7f2c 100644
--- a/drivers/media/rc/imon.c
+++ b/drivers/media/rc/imon.c
@@ -2313,7 +2313,6 @@ static struct imon_context *imon_init_intf0(struct usb_interface *intf,
-	if (!ictx) {
-		dev_err(dev, "%s: kzalloc failed for context", __func__);
+	if (!ictx)
 		goto exit;
-	}
+
 	rx_urb = usb_alloc_urb(0, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!rx_urb)
 		goto rx_urb_alloc_failed;
-- 
2.14.1