From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SF Markus Elfring Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 18:56:51 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] orinoco: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "kfree" Message-Id: <54D26B73.1050804@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: Kalle Valo , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall From: Markus Elfring Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 19:53:11 +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/net/wireless/orinoco/main.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/main.c index 38ec8d1..c410180 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/main.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/main.c @@ -2342,7 +2342,7 @@ void free_orinocodev(struct orinoco_private *priv) list_for_each_entry_safe(sd, sdtemp, &priv->scan_list, list) { list_del(&sd->list); - if ((sd->len > 0) && sd->buf) + if (sd->len > 0) kfree(sd->buf); kfree(sd); } -- 2.2.2