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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
To: MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com>,
	Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>,
	Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH] PM / devfreq: Remove unnecessary NULL check before kfree
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 02:27:39 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171112082739.GA20464@embeddedor.com> (raw)

NULL check before freeing functions like kfree is not needed.

This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
---
 drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c b/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
index 78fb496..21164a9 100644
--- a/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
+++ b/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
@@ -672,8 +672,7 @@ struct devfreq *devfreq_add_device(struct device *dev,
 
 	device_unregister(&devfreq->dev);
 err_dev:
-	if (devfreq)
-		kfree(devfreq);
+	kfree(devfreq);
 err_out:
 	return ERR_PTR(err);
 }
-- 
2.7.4

             reply	other threads:[~2017-11-12  8:27 UTC|newest]

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2017-11-12  8:27 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2017-11-12 22:28   ` [PATCH] PM / devfreq: Remove unnecessary NULL check before kfree Chanwoo Choi

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