linux-kernel - [PATCH] net-ipv6: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "free

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Date:	Thu, 02 Jul 2015 16:43:43 +0200
From:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org" <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: [PATCH] net-ipv6: Delete an unnecessary check before the function
 call "free_percpu"

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 16:30:24 +0200

The free_percpu() 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@...rs.sourceforge.net>
---
 net/ipv6/route.c | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
index 1a1122a..6090969 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -369,10 +369,7 @@ static void ip6_dst_destroy(struct dst_entry *dst)
 	struct inet6_dev *idev;
 
 	dst_destroy_metrics_generic(dst);
-
-	if (rt->rt6i_pcpu)
-		free_percpu(rt->rt6i_pcpu);
-
+	free_percpu(rt->rt6i_pcpu);
 	rt6_uncached_list_del(rt);
 
 	idev = rt->rt6i_idev;
-- 
2.4.5

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