[PATCH] NULL check before calling kfree() is not needed.

Aananth Chellapa Natarajan c.n.aananth at gmail.com
Sun Mar 15 08:42:28 UTC 2015


This patch eliminates a redundant check of argument before calling
kfree() and therefore reducing kernel image size.

Signed-off-by: Aananth Chellapa Natarajan <c.n.aananth at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/block/skd_main.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/skd_main.c b/drivers/block/skd_main.c
index 1e46eb2..c4b0259 100644
--- a/drivers/block/skd_main.c
+++ b/drivers/block/skd_main.c
@@ -3998,8 +3998,7 @@ static int skd_acquire_msix(struct skd_device *skdev)
 	return 0;
 
 msix_out:
-	if (entries)
-		kfree(entries);
+	kfree(entries);
 	skd_release_msix(skdev);
 	return rc;
 }
-- 
1.9.1



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