[PATCH 1/1] drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c: remove unnecessary null test before kfree

Fabian Frederick fabf at skynet.be
Sat Jun 28 10:36:33 UTC 2014


Fix checkpatch warning:
WARNING: kfree(NULL) is safe this check is probably not required

Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys at microsoft.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz at microsoft.com>
Cc: devel at linuxdriverproject.org
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf at skynet.be>
---
 drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c
index 4ed38ea..f13e0ac 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c
@@ -1094,9 +1094,7 @@ close:
 	vmbus_close(device->channel);
 
 cleanup:
-
-	if (net_device)
-		kfree(net_device);
+	kfree(net_device);
 
 	return ret;
 }
-- 
1.8.4.5



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