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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
