From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SF Markus Elfring Subject: [PATCH 1/3] xen-scsiback: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "kfree" Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 22:22:26 +0200 Message-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> <59e51c7d-f7bb-c55f-d2fe-06dccfef6a99@users.sourceforge.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <59e51c7d-f7bb-c55f-d2fe-06dccfef6a99@users.sourceforge.net> Sender: kernel-janitors-owner@vger.kernel.org To: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, =?UTF-8?B?SsO8cmdlbiBHcm/Dnw==?= , David Vrabel , Boris Ostrovsky Cc: LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org From: Markus Elfring Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 21:21:05 +0200 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 --- drivers/xen/xen-scsiback.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/xen/xen-scsiback.c b/drivers/xen/xen-scsiback.c index d6950e0..4a48c06 100644 --- a/drivers/xen/xen-scsiback.c +++ b/drivers/xen/xen-scsiback.c @@ -627,8 +627,7 @@ static void scsiback_device_action(struct vscsibk_pend *pending_req, transport_generic_free_cmd(&pending_req->se_cmd, 1); return; err: - if (tmr) - kfree(tmr); + kfree(tmr); scsiback_do_resp_with_sense(NULL, err, 0, pending_req); } -- 2.9.1