[PATCH] staging: netlogic: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in xlr_config_spill()

From: SF Markus Elfring
Date: Wed May 17 2017 - 13:15:43 EST


From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 19:01:10 +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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/netlogic/xlr_net.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/netlogic/xlr_net.c b/drivers/staging/netlogic/xlr_net.c
index 781ef623233e..864304eb5f36 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/netlogic/xlr_net.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/netlogic/xlr_net.c
@@ -420,10 +420,8 @@ static void *xlr_config_spill(struct xlr_net_priv *priv, int reg_start_0,
base = priv->base_addr;
spill_size = size;
spill = kmalloc(spill_size + SMP_CACHE_BYTES, GFP_ATOMIC);
- if (!spill) {
- pr_err("Unable to allocate memory for spill area!\n");
+ if (!spill)
return ZERO_SIZE_PTR;
- }

spill = PTR_ALIGN(spill, SMP_CACHE_BYTES);
phys_addr = virt_to_phys(spill);
--
2.13.0