linux-kernel - [PATCH] Input: kxtj9: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in kxtj9

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Message-ID: <0d5cb90a-28e7-544b-3b77-3e50f11edb15@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:   Thu, 25 Jan 2018 18:18:54 +0100
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
        Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Input: kxtj9: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in kxtj9_probe()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 18:13:57 +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/input/misc/kxtj9.c | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/input/misc/kxtj9.c b/drivers/input/misc/kxtj9.c
index efaffcc57e36..ddd5ca6812cb 100644
--- a/drivers/input/misc/kxtj9.c
+++ b/drivers/input/misc/kxtj9.c
@@ -526,11 +526,8 @@ static int kxtj9_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
 	}
 
 	tj9 = kzalloc(sizeof(*tj9), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!tj9) {
-		dev_err(&client->dev,
-			"failed to allocate memory for module data\n");
+	if (!tj9)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
 
 	tj9->client = client;
 	tj9->pdata = *pdata;
-- 
2.16.1