linux-kernel - [PATCH] [media] img-ir: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in img_ir

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Message-ID: <74e8f4f2-9086-2edb-c64b-e88918b9f742@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:   Tue, 29 Aug 2017 21:09:16 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     linux-media@...r.kernel.org, James Hogan <james.hogan@...tec.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] [media] img-ir: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in img_ir_probe()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 21:04:20 +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/img-ir/img-ir-core.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/rc/img-ir/img-ir-core.c b/drivers/media/rc/img-ir/img-ir-core.c
index 03fe080278df..bcbabeeab12a 100644
--- a/drivers/media/rc/img-ir/img-ir-core.c
+++ b/drivers/media/rc/img-ir/img-ir-core.c
@@ -92,10 +92,9 @@ static int img_ir_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 
 	/* Private driver data */
 	priv = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*priv), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!priv) {
-		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "cannot allocate device data\n");
+	if (!priv)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
+
 	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, priv);
 	priv->dev = &pdev->dev;
 	spin_lock_init(&priv->lock);
-- 
2.14.1