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Date:   Mon, 22 May 2017 11:13:49 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        Günter Röck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] net: pktgen: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in pktgen_create_thread()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 10:38:46 +0200

Omit an extra message for a memory allocation failure in this function.

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Link: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/LCJ16-Refactor_Strings-WSang_0.pdf
Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
---
 net/core/pktgen.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/pktgen.c b/net/core/pktgen.c
index c89f4ad21187..51008ddc7af6 100644
--- a/net/core/pktgen.c
+++ b/net/core/pktgen.c
@@ -3760,7 +3760,5 @@ static int __net_init pktgen_create_thread(int cpu, struct pktgen_net *pn)
-	if (!t) {
-		pr_err("ERROR: out of memory, can't create new thread\n");
+	if (!t)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
 
 	mutex_init(&t->if_lock);
 	t->cpu = cpu;
-- 
2.13.0

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