From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SF Markus Elfring Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2015 16:45:53 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] netlink: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "module_put" Message-Id: <55956AC1.9000902@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" , netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , kernel-janitors , Julia Lawall From: Markus Elfring Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 18:38:12 +0200 The module_put() 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/netlink/af_netlink.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c index dea9253..9a0ae71 100644 --- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c +++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ static int __netlink_remove_tap(struct netlink_tap *nt) out: spin_unlock(&netlink_tap_lock); - if (found && nt->module) + if (found) module_put(nt->module); return found ? 0 : -ENODEV; -- 2.4.5