From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
To: Derek Chickles <derek.chickles@caviumnetworks.com>,
Satanand Burla <satananda.burla@caviumnetworks.com>,
Felix Manlunas <felix.manlunas@caviumnetworks.com>,
Raghu Vatsavayi <raghu.vatsavayi@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@embeddedorcom>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] liquidio: remove unnecessary NULL check before kfree in delete_glists
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 13:59:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171017185920.GA16976@embeddedor.com> (raw)
NULL check before freeing functions like kfree is not needed.
This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
---
This code was tested by compilation only.
drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_main.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_main.c
index 2e993ce..e4a112c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_main.c
@@ -435,8 +435,7 @@ static void delete_glists(struct lio *lio)
do {
g = (struct octnic_gather *)
list_delete_head(&lio->glist[i]);
- if (g)
- kfree(g);
+ kfree(g);
} while (g);
if (lio->glists_virt_base && lio->glists_virt_base[i] &&
--
2.7.4
next reply other threads:[~2017-10-17 18:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-17 18:59 Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2017-10-17 19:01 ` [PATCH 2/2] liquidio: mark expected switch fall-through in octeon_destroy_resources Gustavo A. R. Silva
2017-10-18 17:53 ` Felix Manlunas
2017-10-19 12:28 ` David Miller
2017-10-18 17:47 ` [PATCH 1/2] liquidio: remove unnecessary NULL check before kfree in delete_glists Felix Manlunas
2017-10-19 12:28 ` David Miller
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