From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SF Markus Elfring Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 10:38:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] cxgb4: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "release_firmware" Message-Id: <54D1F6AF.2090408@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: Hariprasad S , netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall From: Markus Elfring Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 11:28:43 +0100 The release_firmware() 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/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_main.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_main.c index 1147e1e..6d08b8c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_main.c @@ -5129,8 +5129,7 @@ static int adap_init0(struct adapter *adap) state, &reset); /* Cleaning up */ - if (fw != NULL) - release_firmware(fw); + release_firmware(fw); t4_free_mem(card_fw); if (ret < 0) -- 2.2.2