linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] HID: kfree() NULL pointer cleanup

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Date:	Thu, 4 Aug 2011 22:48:00 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
To:	Bojan Prtvar <prtvar.b@...il.com>
Cc:	jkosina@...e.cz, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] HID: kfree() NULL pointer cleanup

On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Bojan Prtvar wrote:

> Checking for NULL pointers before kfree() is redundant.

I would find it even nicer to just add a new lavel to skip over the kfree 
in the case where pm is NULL.  It is statically apparent in the source 
code.

julia

> Signed-off-by: Bojan Prtvar <prtvar.b@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/hid/hid-prodikeys.c |    4 +---
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-prodikeys.c b/drivers/hid/hid-prodikeys.c
> index 158b389..62f95d4 100644
> --- a/drivers/hid/hid-prodikeys.c
> +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-prodikeys.c
> @@ -849,9 +849,7 @@ static int pk_probe(struct hid_device *hdev, const struct hid_device_id *id)
>  err_stop:
>  	hid_hw_stop(hdev);
>  err_free:
> -	if (pm != NULL)
> -		kfree(pm);
> -
> +	kfree(pm);
>  	kfree(pk);
>  	return ret;
>  }
> -- 
> 1.7.1
> 
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