[PATCH 1/1] SCSI-aic94xx: Deletion of an unnecessary check before the function call "kfree"

SF Markus Elfring
2014-11-20T22:23:20Z

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 23:18:56 +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 <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
---
drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_init.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_init.c b/drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_init.c
index c56741f..0bfdcba 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_init.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_init.c
@@ -597,8 +597,7 @@ static void asd_destroy_ha_caches(struct asd_ha_struct *asd_ha)
if (asd_ha->hw_prof.scb_ext)
asd_free_coherent(asd_ha, asd_ha->hw_prof.scb_ext);

- if (asd_ha->hw_prof.ddb_bitmap)
- kfree(asd_ha->hw_prof.ddb_bitmap);
+ kfree(asd_ha->hw_prof.ddb_bitmap);
asd_ha->hw_prof.ddb_bitmap = NULL;

for (i = 0; i < ASD_MAX_PHYS; i++) {
--
2.1.3