linux-kernel - [PATCH] ALSA: gus: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in snd_gf1_dma_transfer

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Date:   Wed, 22 Nov 2017 17:47:14 +0100
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     alsa-devel@...a-project.org, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: gus: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in snd_gf1_dma_transfer_block()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 17:43:25 +0100

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>
---
 sound/isa/gus/gus_dma.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/isa/gus/gus_dma.c b/sound/isa/gus/gus_dma.c
index 36c27c832360..7f95f452f106 100644
--- a/sound/isa/gus/gus_dma.c
+++ b/sound/isa/gus/gus_dma.c
@@ -201,10 +201,9 @@ int snd_gf1_dma_transfer_block(struct snd_gus_card * gus,
 	struct snd_gf1_dma_block *block;
 
 	block = kmalloc(sizeof(*block), atomic ? GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (block == NULL) {
-		snd_printk(KERN_ERR "gf1: DMA transfer failure; not enough memory\n");
+	if (!block)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
+
 	*block = *__block;
 	block->next = NULL;
 
-- 
2.15.0