If the previous can_net device has been successfully allocated, its private data structure is impossible to be empty, remove this redundant error return judgment. Otherwise, memory leaks for alloc_candev() will be triggered. Signed-off-by: Xulin Sun <xulin.sun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can.c b/drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can.c index 02c5795b7393..042940088d41 100644 --- a/drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can.c +++ b/drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can.c @@ -1797,11 +1797,6 @@ struct m_can_classdev *m_can_class_allocate_dev(struct device *dev) } class_dev = netdev_priv(net_dev); - if (!class_dev) { - dev_err(dev, "Failed to init netdev cdevate"); - goto out; - } - class_dev->net = net_dev; class_dev->dev = dev; SET_NETDEV_DEV(net_dev, dev); -- 2.17.1