linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/4] uwb: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in whcrc

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Message-ID: <2857ba10-caa2-b283-da10-e292fdc8698d@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:   Tue, 5 Dec 2017 21:28:11 +0100
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] uwb: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in whcrc_probe()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:43:31 +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>
---
 drivers/uwb/whc-rc.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/uwb/whc-rc.c b/drivers/uwb/whc-rc.c
index 3ae3c702500d..f69511166aad 100644
--- a/drivers/uwb/whc-rc.c
+++ b/drivers/uwb/whc-rc.c
@@ -374,10 +374,9 @@ int whcrc_probe(struct umc_dev *umc_dev)
 		goto error_rc_alloc;
 	}
 	whcrc = kzalloc(sizeof(*whcrc), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (whcrc == NULL) {
-		dev_err(dev, "unable to allocate WHC-RC instance\n");
+	if (!whcrc)
 		goto error_alloc;
-	}
+
 	whcrc_init(whcrc);
 	whcrc->umc_dev = umc_dev;
 
-- 
2.15.1