[PATCH] staging: gdm72xx: Deletion of an unnecessary check before the function call "kfree"

SF Markus Elfring
2015-02-01T17:42:53Z

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 18:28:33 +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 <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
---
drivers/staging/gdm72xx/gdm_wimax.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/gdm72xx/gdm_wimax.c b/drivers/staging/gdm72xx/gdm_wimax.c
index 9cab54b..ac901e6 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/gdm72xx/gdm_wimax.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/gdm72xx/gdm_wimax.c
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ static int gdm_wimax_close(struct net_device *dev)

static void kdelete(void **buf)
{
- if (buf && *buf) {
+ if (buf) {
kfree(*buf);
*buf = NULL;
}
--
2.2.2