linux-kernel - [PATCH 01/12] parport: ax88796: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in parport_ax88796

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Message-Id: <1518032879-5844-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed,  7 Feb 2018 19:47:48 +0000
From:   Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 01/12] parport: ax88796: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in parport_ax88796_probe()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>

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>
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
---
 drivers/parport/parport_ax88796.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/parport/parport_ax88796.c b/drivers/parport/parport_ax88796.c
index 2fc91ed..ef0aec4 100644
--- a/drivers/parport/parport_ax88796.c
+++ b/drivers/parport/parport_ax88796.c
@@ -281,10 +281,8 @@ static int parport_ax88796_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	int ret;
 
 	dd = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ax_drvdata), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (dd == NULL) {
-		dev_err(_dev, "no memory for private data\n");
+	if (!dd)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
 
 	res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
 	if (res == NULL) {
-- 
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