From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SF Markus Elfring Subject: [PATCH] net: brcm80211: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "release_firmware" Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 08:58:26 +0100 Message-ID: <563C5DA2.3000005@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.sourceforge.net> <546E0DC8.3050906@users.sourceforge.net> <546E2D2A.6090101@broadcom.com> 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: Arend van Spriel , Brett Rudley , "Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" , Hante Meuleman , Kalle Valo , brcm80211-dev-list@broadcom.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <546E2D2A.6090101@broadcom.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Markus Elfring Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 08:48:23 +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/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.c b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.c index 4248f3c..33afb9a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.c @@ -449,8 +449,7 @@ static void brcmf_fw_request_nvram_done(const struct firmware *fw, void *ctx) if (raw_nvram) bcm47xx_nvram_release_contents(data); - if (fw) - release_firmware(fw); + release_firmware(fw); if (!nvram && !(fwctx->flags & BRCMF_FW_REQ_NV_OPTIONAL)) goto fail; -- 2.6.2