[PATCH] s390: kernel: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in cpcmd()

From: SF Markus Elfring
Date: Thu May 25 2017 - 13:18:20 EST


From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 19:09:50 +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>
---
arch/s390/kernel/cpcmd.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/cpcmd.c b/arch/s390/kernel/cpcmd.c
index 9f0e4a2785f7..2f9c97813846 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/cpcmd.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/cpcmd.c
@@ -95,10 +95,9 @@ int cpcmd(const char *cmd, char *response, int rlen, int *response_code)
if ((virt_to_phys(response) != (unsigned long) response) ||
(((unsigned long)response + rlen) >> 31)) {
lowbuf = kmalloc(rlen, GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA);
- if (!lowbuf) {
- pr_warn("The cpcmd kernel function failed to allocate a response buffer\n");
+ if (!lowbuf)
return -ENOMEM;
- }
+
spin_lock_irqsave(&cpcmd_lock, flags);
len = __cpcmd(cmd, lowbuf, rlen, response_code);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cpcmd_lock, flags);
--
2.13.0