From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SF Markus Elfring Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 12:55:41 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 3/13] ALSA: emu10k1: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "kfree" Message-Id: <54A9384D.4080302@users.sourceforge.net> List-Id: References: <5307CAA2.8060406@users.sourceforge.net> <530A086E.8010901@users.sourceforge.net> <530A72AA.3000601@users.sourceforge.net> <530B5FB6.6010207@users.sourceforge.net> <530C5E18.1020800@users.sourceforge.net> <530CD2C4.4050903@users.sourceforge.net> <530CF8FF.8080600@users.sourceforge.net> <530DD06F.4090703@users.sourceforge.net> <5317A59D.4@users.so urceforge.net> <54A9355F.4050102@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <54A9355F.4050102@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jaroslav Kysela , Takashi Iwai , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Cc: LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall From: Markus Elfring Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 17:06:04 +0100 The kfree() function tests whether its argument is NULL and then returns immediately. Thus the test around the call is not needed. This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring --- sound/pci/emu10k1/p16v.c | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/sound/pci/emu10k1/p16v.c b/sound/pci/emu10k1/p16v.c index b672755..3c60b43 100644 --- a/sound/pci/emu10k1/p16v.c +++ b/sound/pci/emu10k1/p16v.c @@ -166,11 +166,8 @@ static struct snd_pcm_hardware snd_p16v_capture_hw = { static void snd_p16v_pcm_free_substream(struct snd_pcm_runtime *runtime) { struct snd_emu10k1_pcm *epcm = runtime->private_data; - - if (epcm) { - /* dev_dbg(emu->card->dev, "epcm free: %p\n", epcm); */ - kfree(epcm); - } + + kfree(epcm); } /* open_playback callback */ -- 2.2.1