From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SF Markus Elfring Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 18:29:08 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] SCSI-csiostor: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "release_firmware" Message-Id: <54D507F4.5010704@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.so urceforge.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: "James E. J. Bottomley" , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Cc: LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall From: Markus Elfring Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 19:10:25 +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/scsi/csiostor/csio_hw.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_hw.c b/drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_hw.c index 35c5f83..37fa8bf 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_hw.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_hw.c @@ -2117,8 +2117,7 @@ csio_hw_flash_fw(struct csio_hw *hw, int *reset) hw->fw_state, reset); /* Cleaning up */ - if (fw != NULL) - release_firmware(fw); + release_firmware(fw); kfree(card_fw); return ret; } -- 2.2.2