From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2017 17:27:18 +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> --- drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c b/drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c index ab41be625a53..8eea2529da20 100644 --- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c +++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c @@ -140,10 +140,8 @@ bail: spin_unlock_irqrestore(&emsgs_lock, flags); } mp = kmemdup(msg, n, GFP_ATOMIC); - if (mp == NULL) { - printk(KERN_ERR "aoe: allocation failure, len=%ld\n", n); + if (!mp) goto bail; - } em->msg = mp; em->flags |= EMFL_VALID; -- 2.13.4 -- 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