A combination of printk() followed by WARN_ON() macro can be simplified using a single WARN(1, ...) macro. Patch change suggested by warn.cocci Coccinelle semantic patch. Signed-off-by: Deepak R Varma <drv@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/initio.c | 3 +-- drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 6 ++---- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/initio.c b/drivers/scsi/initio.c index 375261d67619..fea591d9d292 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/initio.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/initio.c @@ -2738,8 +2738,7 @@ static void i91uSCBPost(u8 * host_mem, u8 * cblk_mem) host = (struct initio_host *) host_mem; cblk = (struct scsi_ctrl_blk *) cblk_mem; if ((cmnd = cblk->srb) == NULL) { - printk(KERN_ERR "i91uSCBPost: SRB pointer is empty\n"); - WARN_ON(1); + WARN(1, KERN_ERR "i91uSCBPost: SRB pointer is empty\n"); initio_release_scb(host, cblk); /* Release SCB for current channel */ return; } diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c index 9ed1ebcb7443..96c9a561973e 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c @@ -3009,10 +3009,8 @@ void *scsi_kmap_atomic_sg(struct scatterlist *sgl, int sg_count, } if (unlikely(i == sg_count)) { - printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Bytes in sg: %zu, requested offset %zu, " - "elements %d\n", - __func__, sg_len, *offset, sg_count); - WARN_ON(1); + WARN(1, printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Bytes in sg: %zu, requested offset %zu, elements %d\n", + __func__, sg_len, *offset, sg_count); return NULL; } -- 2.34.1