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* [PATCH] Staging: wilc1000: NULL check before some freeing functions is not needed
@ 2015-06-18 12:37 Abdul, Hussain (H.)
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From: Abdul, Hussain (H.) @ 2015-06-18 12:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
  Cc: johnny.kim@atmel.com, rachel.kim@atmel.com, dean.lee@atmel.com,
	chris.park@atmel.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	mravind@visteon.com, Dighe, Niranjan (N.)

From: Abdul Hussain <habdul@visteon.com>

This patch removes check before freeing the memory 
since kfree(NULL) is safe

Signed-off-by: Abdul Hussain <habdul@visteon.com>
---
 drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan_spi.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan_spi.c b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan_spi.c
index 1eee1d5..236669c 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan_spi.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan_spi.c
@@ -214,8 +214,7 @@ int linux_spi_write(uint8_t *b, uint32_t len)
 				PRINT_ER("SPI transaction failed\n");
 			}
 		}
-		if (r_buffer)
-			kfree(r_buffer);
+		kfree(r_buffer);
 	} else {
 		PRINT_ER("can't write data with the following length: %d\n", len);
 		PRINT_ER("FAILED due to NULL buffer or ZERO length check the following length: %d\n", len);
@@ -377,8 +376,7 @@ int linux_spi_read(unsigned char *rb, unsigned long rlen)
 			}
 		}
 
-		if (t_buffer)
-			kfree(t_buffer);
+		kfree(t_buffer);
 	} else {
 		PRINT_ER("can't read data with the following length: %ld\n", rlen);
 		ret = -1;
-- 
1.9.1

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