From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SF Markus Elfring Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 19:10:33 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] HostAP: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "kfree" Message-Id: <54D26EA9.6020301@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: Jouni Malinen , 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 20:06:39 +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/hostap/hostap_ap.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_ap.c b/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_ap.c index 5965255..fd8d83d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_ap.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_ap.c @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ static void ap_free_sta(struct ap_data *ap, struct sta_info *sta) if (sta->aid > 0) ap->sta_aid[sta->aid - 1] = NULL; - if (!sta->ap && sta->u.sta.challenge) + if (!sta->ap) kfree(sta->u.sta.challenge); del_timer_sync(&sta->timer); #endif /* PRISM2_NO_KERNEL_IEEE80211_MGMT */ -- 2.2.2