netdev - [PATCH] net-scm: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "kfree"

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Date:	Tue, 17 Nov 2015 17:43:35 +0100
From:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: [PATCH] net-scm: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call
 "kfree"

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 17:37:22 +0100

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@...rs.sourceforge.net>
---
 net/core/scm.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/scm.c b/net/core/scm.c
index 3b6899b..4f64173 100644
--- a/net/core/scm.c
+++ b/net/core/scm.c
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ int __scm_send(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, struct scm_cookie *p)
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (p->fp && !p->fp->count)
+	if (likely(!p->fp->count))
 	{
 		kfree(p->fp);
 		p->fp = NULL;
-- 
2.6.2

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