linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/4] staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in mkimage()

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Date:   Wed, 13 Dec 2017 14:11:29 +0100
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Maciek Borzecki <maciek.borzecki@...il.com>,
        Simo Koskinen <koskisoft@...il.com>,
        Thibaut Sautereau <thibaut.sautereau@...ecom-sudparis.eu>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw: Delete an error message for a
 failed memory allocation in mkimage()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 12:57:13 +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/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c
index 344bec8cc31b..6888d1b093fa 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c
@@ -557,10 +557,9 @@ static int mkimage(struct imgchunk *clist, unsigned int *ccnt)
 	/* Allocate buffer space for chunks */
 	for (i = 0; i < *ccnt; i++) {
 		clist[i].data = kzalloc(clist[i].len, GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (!clist[i].data) {
-			pr_err("failed to allocate image space, exitting.\n");
+		if (!clist[i].data)
 			return 1;
-		}
+
 		pr_debug("chunk[%d]: addr=0x%06x len=%d\n",
 			 i, clist[i].addr, clist[i].len);
 	}
-- 
2.15.1