[PATCH 17/28] coresight: tmc: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "kfree"

Mathieu Poirier mathieu.poirier at linaro.org
Thu Aug 25 14:19:07 PDT 2016


From: Markus Elfring <elfring at users.sourceforge.net>

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 <elfring at users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier at linaro.org>
---
 drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etf.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etf.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etf.c
index e68289b8c072..5fa49c4252f6 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etf.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etf.c
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ out:
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&drvdata->spinlock, flags);
 
 	/* Free memory outside the spinlock if need be */
-	if (!used && buf)
+	if (!used)
 		kfree(buf);
 
 	if (!ret)
-- 
2.7.4




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