From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SF Markus Elfring Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 10:11:11 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] video: uvesafb: Deletion of an unnecessary check before the function call "uvesafb_free" Message-Id: <5471B2BF.4040707@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: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard , Michal Januszewski , Tomi Valkeinen , linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall From: Markus Elfring Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 11:00:26 +0100 The uvesafb_free() 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/video/fbdev/uvesafb.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/uvesafb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/uvesafb.c index 509d452..f718627 100644 --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/uvesafb.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/uvesafb.c @@ -1219,8 +1219,7 @@ static int uvesafb_release(struct fb_info *info, int user) uvesafb_vbe_state_restore(par, par->vbe_state_orig); out: atomic_dec(&par->ref_count); - if (task) - uvesafb_free(task); + uvesafb_free(task); return 0; } -- 2.1.3