linux-kernel - [PATCH] tty/vt/selection: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in set

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Date:   Wed, 6 Dec 2017 20:12:34 +0100
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] tty/vt/selection: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in set_selection()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 20:07:34 +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/tty/vt/selection.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c b/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c
index af4da9507180..d6087f2757ab 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c
@@ -286,7 +286,6 @@ int set_selection(const struct tiocl_selection __user *sel, struct tty_struct *t
 	multiplier = use_unicode ? 3 : 1;  /* chars can take up to 3 bytes */
 	bp = kmalloc(((sel_end-sel_start)/2+1)*multiplier, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!bp) {
-		printk(KERN_WARNING "selection: kmalloc() failed\n");
 		clear_selection();
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
-- 
2.15.1