linux-kernel - [PATCH] misc/mic/host: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in mic

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Date:   Tue, 9 Jan 2018 17:10:05 +0100
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@...el.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@...el.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] misc/mic/host: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in mic_probe()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 17:03:41 +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/misc/mic/host/mic_main.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_main.c b/drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_main.c
index 035be3e9ceba..e3d38f6018c4 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_main.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_main.c
@@ -175,7 +175,6 @@ static int mic_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
 	mdev = kzalloc(sizeof(*mdev), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!mdev) {
 		rc = -ENOMEM;
-		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "mdev kmalloc failed rc %d\n", rc);
 		goto mdev_alloc_fail;
 	}
 	mdev->id = ida_simple_get(&g_mic_ida, 0, MIC_MAX_NUM_DEVS, GFP_KERNEL);
-- 
2.15.1