From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SF Markus Elfring Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 17:15:59 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] net: sctp: Deletion of an unnecessary check before the function call "kfree" Message-Id: <54CD0DCF.9020804@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: "David S. Miller" , Neil Horman , Vlad Yasevich , linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall From: Markus Elfring Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 18:10:03 +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 --- net/sctp/associola.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/sctp/associola.c b/net/sctp/associola.c index f791edd..3c2aefc 100644 --- a/net/sctp/associola.c +++ b/net/sctp/associola.c @@ -391,8 +391,7 @@ void sctp_association_free(struct sctp_association *asoc) sctp_asconf_queue_teardown(asoc); /* Free pending address space being deleted */ - if (asoc->asconf_addr_del_pending != NULL) - kfree(asoc->asconf_addr_del_pending); + kfree(asoc->asconf_addr_del_pending); /* AUTH - Free the endpoint shared keys */ sctp_auth_destroy_keys(&asoc->endpoint_shared_keys); -- 2.2.2