From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SF Markus Elfring Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 16:47:27 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] CW1200: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "release_firmware" Message-Id: <54D24D1F.50001@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> <54D24CC3.9010006@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <54D24CC3.9010006@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Kalle Valo , Solomon Peachy , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Cc: LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall From: Markus Elfring Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 16:32:15 +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/wireless/cw1200/fwio.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/cw1200/fwio.c b/drivers/net/wireless/cw1200/fwio.c index 6f1b9aa..581dfde 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/cw1200/fwio.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/cw1200/fwio.c @@ -246,8 +246,7 @@ static int cw1200_load_firmware_cw1200(struct cw1200_common *priv) error: kfree(buf); - if (firmware) - release_firmware(firmware); + release_firmware(firmware); return ret; #undef APB_WRITE -- 2.2.2