linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm/amdgpu: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "kfree"

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Date:	Mon, 29 Jun 2015 11:30:51 -0400
From:	Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@...il.com>
To:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:	Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	Maling list - DRI developers 
	<dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/amdgpu: Delete an unnecessary check before the
 function call "kfree"

On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 4:45 AM, SF Markus Elfring
<elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 10:27:35 +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>

I already have the same patch from Maninder Singh.

Thanks!

Alex

> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c
> index fec487d..a85cd08 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c
> @@ -1575,8 +1575,7 @@ void amdgpu_device_fini(struct amdgpu_device *adev)
>         amdgpu_fence_driver_fini(adev);
>         amdgpu_fbdev_fini(adev);
>         r = amdgpu_fini(adev);
> -       if (adev->ip_block_enabled)
> -               kfree(adev->ip_block_enabled);
> +       kfree(adev->ip_block_enabled);
>         adev->ip_block_enabled = NULL;
>         adev->accel_working = false;
>         /* free i2c buses */
> --
> 2.4.4
>
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