linux-kernel - [PATCH] firmware-gsmi: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in gsmi_buf

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Sun, 11 Feb 2018 22:26:16 +0100
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] firmware-gsmi: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in gsmi_buf_alloc()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 22:22:02 +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/firmware/google/gsmi.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/google/gsmi.c b/drivers/firmware/google/gsmi.c
index c8f169bf2e27..fbf661e0b784 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/google/gsmi.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/google/gsmi.c
@@ -138,10 +138,8 @@ static struct gsmi_buf *gsmi_buf_alloc(void)
 	struct gsmi_buf *smibuf;
 
 	smibuf = kzalloc(sizeof(*smibuf), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!smibuf) {
-		printk(KERN_ERR "gsmi: out of memory\n");
+	if (!smibuf)
 		return NULL;
-	}
 
 	/* allocate buffer in 32bit address space */
 	smibuf->start = dma_pool_alloc(gsmi_dev.dma_pool, GFP_KERNEL,
-- 
2.16.1