linux-kernel - [PATCH] staging: vt6656: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in vnt_alloc

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Message-ID: <d05afbfa-54c9-2783-fd1e-df89991927f1@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:   Wed, 13 Dec 2017 15:25:51 +0100
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, Chewie Lin <linsh@...gonstate.edu>,
        Forest Bond <forest@...ttletooquiet.net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@...il.com>,
        Scott Matheina <scott@...heina.com>,
        Simon Sandström <simon@...anor.nu>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] staging: vt6656: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in vnt_alloc_bufs()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 15:15:45 +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/vt6656/main_usb.c | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/vt6656/main_usb.c b/drivers/staging/vt6656/main_usb.c
index cc6d8778fe5b..554b21e40298 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/vt6656/main_usb.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/vt6656/main_usb.c
@@ -437,11 +437,8 @@ static bool vnt_alloc_bufs(struct vnt_private *priv)
 
 	for (ii = 0; ii < priv->num_rcb; ii++) {
 		priv->rcb[ii] = kzalloc(sizeof(*priv->rcb[ii]), GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (!priv->rcb[ii]) {
-			dev_err(&priv->usb->dev,
-				"failed to allocate rcb no %d\n", ii);
+		if (!priv->rcb[ii])
 			goto free_rx_tx;
-		}
 
 		rcb = priv->rcb[ii];
 
-- 
2.15.1