linux-kernel - [PATCH] platform/x86/mlxcpld-hotplug: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in mlxcpld_hotplug_attr

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Message-ID: <679408d6-5412-562e-8051-319302635354@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:   Tue, 19 Dec 2017 21:03:29 +0100
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>,
        Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Vadim Pasternak <vadimp@...lanox.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] platform/x86/mlxcpld-hotplug: Delete an error message for a
 failed memory allocation in mlxcpld_hotplug_attr_init()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 20:56:56 +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/platform/x86/mlxcpld-hotplug.c | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/mlxcpld-hotplug.c b/drivers/platform/x86/mlxcpld-hotplug.c
index aff3686b3b37..d45cb8be221f 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/mlxcpld-hotplug.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/mlxcpld-hotplug.c
@@ -165,11 +165,8 @@ static int mlxcpld_hotplug_attr_init(struct mlxcpld_hotplug_priv_data *priv)
 			PRIV_DEV_ATTR(i).nr = MLXCPLD_HOTPLUG_ATTR_TYPE_FAN;
 		}
 
-		if (!PRIV_ATTR(i)->name) {
-			dev_err(&priv->pdev->dev, "Memory allocation failed for sysfs attribute %d.\n",
-				i + 1);
+		if (!PRIV_ATTR(i)->name)
 			return -ENOMEM;
-		}
 
 		PRIV_DEV_ATTR(i).dev_attr.attr.name = PRIV_ATTR(i)->name;
 		PRIV_DEV_ATTR(i).dev_attr.attr.mode = S_IRUGO;
-- 
2.15.1