linux-kernel - [PATCH 24/24] staging: wlan-ng: Remove NULL check before kfree

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <1299994157-11191-25-git-send-email-imirkin@alum.mit.edu>
Date:	Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:29:17 -0500
From:	Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@...m.mit.edu>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 24/24] staging: wlan-ng: Remove NULL check before kfree

This patch was generated by the following semantic patch:
// <smpl>
@@ expression E; @@
- if (E != NULL) { kfree(E); }
+ kfree(E);

@@ expression E; @@
- if (E != NULL) { kfree(E); E = NULL; }
+ kfree(E);
+ E = NULL;
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@...m.mit.edu>
---
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c |    6 ++----
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c    |    3 +--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c
index a6efc03..7843dfd 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c
@@ -612,10 +612,8 @@ void hfa384x_destroy(hfa384x_t *hw)
 		hfa384x_drvr_stop(hw);
 	hw->state = HFA384x_STATE_PREINIT;
 
-	if (hw->scanresults) {
-		kfree(hw->scanresults);
-		hw->scanresults = NULL;
-	}
+	kfree(hw->scanresults);
+	hw->scanresults = NULL;
 
 	/* Now to clean out the auth queue */
 	while ((skb = skb_dequeue(&hw->authq)))
diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c
index fd5ddb2..729d03d 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c
@@ -443,8 +443,7 @@ void free_chunks(struct imgchunk *fchunk, unsigned int *nfchunks)
 {
 	int i;
 	for (i = 0; i < *nfchunks; i++) {
-		if (fchunk[i].data != NULL)
-			kfree(fchunk[i].data);
+		kfree(fchunk[i].data);
 	}
 	*nfchunks = 0;
 	memset(fchunk, 0, sizeof(*fchunk));
-- 
1.7.3.4

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/