[PATCH 1/3] block/ps3vram: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in ps3vram_cache_init()

Geoff Levand geoff at infradead.org
Tue Aug 8 06:09:20 AEST 2017


From: Markus Elfring <elfring at users.sourceforge.net>

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 at users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Jim Paris <jim at jtan.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe at kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoff at infradead.org>
---
 drivers/block/ps3vram.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/ps3vram.c b/drivers/block/ps3vram.c
index e0e81cacd781..ba97d037279e 100644
--- a/drivers/block/ps3vram.c
+++ b/drivers/block/ps3vram.c
@@ -409,10 +409,8 @@ static int ps3vram_cache_init(struct ps3_system_bus_device *dev)
 	priv->cache.page_size = CACHE_PAGE_SIZE;
 	priv->cache.tags = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ps3vram_tag) *
 				   CACHE_PAGE_COUNT, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (priv->cache.tags == NULL) {
-		dev_err(&dev->core, "Could not allocate cache tags\n");
+	if (!priv->cache.tags)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
 
 	dev_info(&dev->core, "Created ram cache: %d entries, %d KiB each\n",
 		CACHE_PAGE_COUNT, CACHE_PAGE_SIZE / 1024);
-- 
2.11.0




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