[PATCH 1/2] mtdconcat: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in mtd_concat_create()

SF Markus Elfring elfring at users.sourceforge.net
Thu Jan 4 11:29:49 PST 2018


From: Markus Elfring <elfring at users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 19:55:10 +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 at users.sourceforge.net>
---
 drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c | 7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c
index 60bf53df5454..f1a60c55a126 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c
@@ -668,12 +668,9 @@ struct mtd_info *mtd_concat_create(struct mtd_info *subdev[],	/* subdevices to c
 	/* allocate the device structure */
 	size = SIZEOF_STRUCT_MTD_CONCAT(num_devs);
 	concat = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!concat) {
-		printk
-		    ("memory allocation error while creating concatenated device \"%s\"\n",
-		     name);
+	if (!concat)
 		return NULL;
-	}
+
 	concat->subdev = (struct mtd_info **) (concat + 1);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.15.1




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