linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/7] [media] ov6650: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in ov6650

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Date:   Sat, 2 Sep 2017 17:50:16 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     linux-media@...r.kernel.org, Bhumika Goyal <bhumirks@...il.com>,
        Frank Schäfer <fschaefer.oss@...glemail.com>,
        Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@....de>,
        Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@...co.com>,
        Janusz Krzysztofik <jmkrzyszt@...il.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/7] [media] ov6650: Delete an error message for a failed
 memory allocation in ov6650_probe()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2017 16:16:39 +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/i2c/ov6650.c | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/i2c/ov6650.c b/drivers/media/i2c/ov6650.c
index 768f2950ea36..8975d16b2b24 100644
--- a/drivers/media/i2c/ov6650.c
+++ b/drivers/media/i2c/ov6650.c
@@ -954,8 +954,5 @@ static int ov6650_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
-	if (!priv) {
-		dev_err(&client->dev,
-			"Failed to allocate memory for private data!\n");
+	if (!priv)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
 
 	v4l2_i2c_subdev_init(&priv->subdev, client, &ov6650_subdev_ops);
 	v4l2_ctrl_handler_init(&priv->hdl, 13);
-- 
2.14.1