From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SF Markus Elfring Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 18:36:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH v2 06/17] IB/mlx4: Delete an unnecessary check before kfree() in free_pv_object() Message-Id: <950a4a7f-01f6-9791-5d4c-41abe07366ed@users.sourceforge.net> List-Id: References: <1935365a-bd7c-461e-6a84-0c5d3a501fff@users.sourceforge.net> <1492720654.3041.16.camel@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Doug Ledford , Hal Rosenstock , Leon Romanovsky , Majd Dibbiny , Matan Barak , Sean Hefty , Yishai Hadas , linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org Cc: LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org From: Markus Elfring Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 13:50:38 +0200 The script "checkpatch.pl" pointed information out like the following. WARNING: kfree(NULL) is safe and this check is probably not required Thus fix the affected source code place. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring --- drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/mad.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/mad.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/mad.c index cf33efce69d2..3caf468ca133 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/mad.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/mad.c @@ -1962,10 +1962,8 @@ static int alloc_pv_object(struct mlx4_ib_dev *dev, int slave, int port, static void free_pv_object(struct mlx4_ib_dev *dev, int slave, int port) { - if (dev->sriov.demux[port - 1].tun[slave]) { - kfree(dev->sriov.demux[port - 1].tun[slave]); - dev->sriov.demux[port - 1].tun[slave] = NULL; - } + kfree(dev->sriov.demux[port - 1].tun[slave]); + dev->sriov.demux[port - 1].tun[slave] = NULL; } static int create_pv_resources(struct ib_device *ibdev, int slave, int port, -- 2.12.2