From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SF Markus Elfring Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 22:33:45 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] [media] mn88473: Deletion of an unnecessary check before the function call "release_firm Message-Id: <547CECC9.1080508@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> <547CEBF5.4040004@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <547CEBF5.4040004@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Antti Palosaari , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org Cc: LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall From: Markus Elfring Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 22:55:29 +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/staging/media/mn88473/mn88473.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/mn88473/mn88473.c b/drivers/staging/media/mn88473/mn88473.c index 1659335..52180bb 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/media/mn88473/mn88473.c +++ b/drivers/staging/media/mn88473/mn88473.c @@ -262,8 +262,7 @@ static int mn88473_init(struct dvb_frontend *fe) return 0; err: - if (fw) - release_firmware(fw); + release_firmware(fw); dev_dbg(&client->dev, "failed=%d\n", ret); return ret; -- 2.1.3