From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SF Markus Elfring Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 15:20:17 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] USB: serial: Deletion of an unnecessary check before the function call "release_firmware Message-Id: <546F5831.5060404@users.sourceforge.net> List-Id: 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> In-Reply-To: <5317A59D.4@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Johan Hovold , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org Cc: LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall From: Markus Elfring Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 16:15:34 +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/usb/serial/mxuport.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/mxuport.c b/drivers/usb/serial/mxuport.c index ab1d690..3653ec1 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/serial/mxuport.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/mxuport.c @@ -1101,8 +1101,7 @@ static int mxuport_probe(struct usb_serial *serial, */ usb_set_serial_data(serial, (void *)id->driver_info); out: - if (fw_p) - release_firmware(fw_p); + release_firmware(fw_p); return err; } -- 2.1.3