From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SF Markus Elfring Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 19:54:46 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] SGI-XPC: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "kfree" Message-Id: <54D27906.9070507@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.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <5317A59D.4@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Cliff Whickman , Robin Holt Cc: LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall From: Markus Elfring Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 20:50:31 +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 --- drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_partition.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_partition.c b/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_partition.c index 6956f7e..0e32431 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_partition.c +++ b/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_partition.c @@ -98,8 +98,7 @@ xpc_get_rsvd_page_pa(int nasid) len = L1_CACHE_ALIGN(len); if (len > buf_len) { - if (buf_base != NULL) - kfree(buf_base); + kfree(buf_base); buf_len = L1_CACHE_ALIGN(len); buf = xpc_kmalloc_cacheline_aligned(buf_len, GFP_KERNEL, &buf_base); -- 2.2.2