linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tc1100-wmi: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "kfree"

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Message-ID: <20150626230402.GA57818@vmdeb7>
Date:	Fri, 26 Jun 2015 16:04:02 -0700
From:	Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>
To:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:	platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tc1100-wmi: Delete an unnecessary check before the
 function call "kfree"

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 09:28:08PM +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 21:21:16 +0200
> 
> 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>

Queued, thanks.

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
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