linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/3] [media] mb86a20s: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in mb86a20s

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Message-ID: <b977ca6f-5839-380c-e4b1-0b6108fb4274@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:   Thu, 31 Aug 2017 21:56:44 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@...il.com>,
        Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@....org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] [media] mb86a20s: Delete an error message for a failed
 memory allocation in mb86a20s_attach()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 21:10:25 +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/dvb-frontends/mb86a20s.c | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/mb86a20s.c b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/mb86a20s.c
index e8ac8c3e2ec0..340984100aec 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/mb86a20s.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/mb86a20s.c
@@ -2075,8 +2075,5 @@ struct dvb_frontend *mb86a20s_attach(const struct mb86a20s_config *config,
-	if (state == NULL) {
-		dev_err(&i2c->dev,
-			"%s: unable to allocate memory for state\n", __func__);
+	if (!state)
 		goto error;
-	}
 
 	/* setup the state */
 	state->config = config;
-- 
2.14.1