linux-kernel - [PATCH] staging: ks7010: Remove unnecessary null check

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Date:   Sun, 30 Sep 2018 09:34:21 +0100
From:   Aymen Qader <qader.aymen@...il.com>
To:     unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)
Cc:     Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>,
        Aymen Qader <qader.aymen@...il.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] staging: ks7010: Remove unnecessary null check

Remove the unnecessary socket buffer null check in hostif_data_request.
There is already an appropriate null check in the calling function:

(ks_wlan_net.c) ks_wlan_start_xmit

Signed-off-by: Aymen Qader <qader.aymen@...il.com>
---
 drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c
index 0e554e3359b5..ca030d3f609f 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c
@@ -1023,8 +1023,8 @@ int hostif_data_request(struct ks_wlan_private *priv, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	    priv->wpa.mic_failure.stop) {
 		if (netif_queue_stopped(priv->net_dev))
 			netif_wake_queue(priv->net_dev);
-		if (skb)
-			dev_kfree_skb(skb);
+
+		dev_kfree_skb(skb);
 
 		return 0;
 	}
-- 
2.17.1