From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SF Markus Elfring Subject: [PATCH] orinoco: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "kfree" Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 19:56:51 +0100 Message-ID: <54D26B73.1050804@users.sourceforge.net> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall To: Kalle Valo , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.4]:57694 "EHLO mout.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161480AbbBDS45 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2015 13:56:57 -0500 In-Reply-To: <5317A59D.4@users.sourceforge.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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