linux-ext4 - [PATCH] ext4: Remove unneeded if checks before kfree

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Message-ID: <20240304165507.156076-2-thorsten.blum@toblux.com>
Date: Mon,  4 Mar 2024 17:55:08 +0100
From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...lux.com>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>
Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...lux.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: Remove unneeded if checks before kfree

kfree already checks if its argument is NULL. This fixes two
Coccinelle/coccicheck warnings reported by ifnullfree.cocci.

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...lux.com>
---
 fs/ext4/super.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 0f931d0c227d..9b7a0b4f2d3d 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -2079,8 +2079,7 @@ static int unnote_qf_name(struct fs_context *fc, int qtype)
 {
 	struct ext4_fs_context *ctx = fc->fs_private;
 
-	if (ctx->s_qf_names[qtype])
-		kfree(ctx->s_qf_names[qtype]);
+	kfree(ctx->s_qf_names[qtype]);
 
 	ctx->s_qf_names[qtype] = NULL;
 	ctx->qname_spec |= 1 << qtype;
@@ -2485,8 +2484,7 @@ static int parse_options(struct fs_context *fc, char *options)
 			param.size = v_len;
 
 			ret = ext4_parse_param(fc, &param);
-			if (param.string)
-				kfree(param.string);
+			kfree(param.string);
 			if (ret < 0)
 				return ret;
 		}
-- 
2.44.0