To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: [PATCH] misc/phantom: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in phantom_probe()
Message-ID: <73220c52-2399-12a5-276d-9145877a5bea@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 17:40:05 +0100
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From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 17:25:59 +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@users.sourceforge.net>
---
 drivers/misc/phantom.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/phantom.c b/drivers/misc/phantom.c
index 8fa68cf308e0..ab55d2114136 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/phantom.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/phantom.c
@@ -365,10 +365,8 @@ static int phantom_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
 
 	retval = -ENOMEM;
 	pht = kzalloc(sizeof(*pht), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (pht == NULL) {
-		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "unable to allocate device\n");
+	if (!pht)
 		goto err_reg;
-	}
 
 	pht->caddr = pci_iomap(pdev, 0, 0);
 	if (pht->caddr == NULL) {
-- 
2.15.1