From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751475AbdALNNR (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2017 08:13:17 -0500 Received: from mga04.intel.com ([192.55.52.120]:63733 "EHLO mga04.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750734AbdALNNQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2017 08:13:16 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.33,349,1477983600"; d="scan'208";a="48140960" Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 21:12:58 +0800 From: kbuild test robot To: Janakarajan Natarajan Cc: kbuild-all@01.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Alexander Shishkin , Suravee Suthikulpanit , Janakarajan Natarajan Subject: [PATCH] perf/x86/amd/uncore: fix ifnullfree.cocci warnings Message-ID: <20170112131258.GA1861@xian.lkp.intel.com> References: <201701122147.So3CUDMg%fengguang.wu@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <11f5b2f7a63c0123cd2f9ba9cb4693c6feca1205.1484148262.git.Janakarajan.Natarajan@amd.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: fengguang.wu@intel.com X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on bee); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org arch/x86/events/amd/uncore.c:365:2-7: WARNING: NULL check before freeing functions like kfree, debugfs_remove, debugfs_remove_recursive or usb_free_urb is not needed. Maybe consider reorganizing relevant code to avoid passing NULL values. NULL check before some freeing functions is not needed. Based on checkpatch warning "kfree(NULL) is safe this check is probably not required" and kfreeaddr.cocci by Julia Lawall. Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/free/ifnullfree.cocci CC: Janakarajan Natarajan Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu --- uncore.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/events/amd/uncore.c +++ b/arch/x86/events/amd/uncore.c @@ -361,8 +361,7 @@ static void amd_uncore_cpu_up_nb_free(un struct amd_uncore *uncore_nb; uncore_nb = *per_cpu_ptr(amd_uncore_nb, cpu); - if (uncore_nb) - kfree(uncore_nb); + kfree(uncore_nb); *per_cpu_ptr(amd_uncore_nb, cpu) = NULL; }