From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 09:00:14 +0000 Subject: [patch] staging: comedi: pcmuio: remove an unneeded check Message-Id: <20130820090013.GC20170@elgon.mountain> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org "devpriv" is non-NULL at this point. We dereference it earlier in the function and the inconsistent checking upsets static checkers. We don't need to check "devpriv->sprivs" because kfree() accepts NULL pointers. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/pcmuio.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/pcmuio.c index f942455..a779062 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/pcmuio.c +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/pcmuio.c @@ -676,8 +676,7 @@ static void pcmuio_detach(struct comedi_device *dev) if (devpriv->asics[i].irq) free_irq(devpriv->asics[i].irq, dev); } - if (devpriv && devpriv->sprivs) - kfree(devpriv->sprivs); + kfree(devpriv->sprivs); comedi_legacy_detach(dev); }