From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SF Markus Elfring Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 16:22:18 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] perf header: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "free_event_desc" Message-Id: <558C2ABA.3000603@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> <558C29E1.2040909@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <558C29E1.2040909@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra Cc: LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall From: Markus Elfring Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 17:12:32 +0200 The free_event_desc() 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 --- tools/perf/util/header.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c index 21a77e7..03ace57 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/header.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c @@ -1063,8 +1063,7 @@ out: free(buf); return events; error: - if (events) - free_event_desc(events); + free_event_desc(events); events = NULL; goto out; } -- 2.4.4