linux-kernel - Re: cxl: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "kfree"

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Date:	Wed, 13 Apr 2016 23:33:34 +1000 (AEST)
From:	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>,
	Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Cc:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: cxl: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "kfree"

On Fri, 2015-06-11 at 10:05:46 UTC, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 11:00:23 +0100
> 
> 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>
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@....ibm.com>
> Acked-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/1050e689a63baffdadcd33498c

cheers