linux-kernel - [PATCH] block: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "kmem_cache

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Date:	Fri, 22 Jul 2016 21:21:26 +0200
From:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:	linux-block@...r.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: [PATCH] block: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call
 "kmem_cache_destroy"

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 21:07:37 +0200

The kmem_cache_destroy() 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>
---
 block/elevator.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/elevator.c b/block/elevator.c
index 7096c22..29dc177 100644
--- a/block/elevator.c
+++ b/block/elevator.c
@@ -846,8 +846,7 @@ int elv_register(struct elevator_type *e)
 	spin_lock(&elv_list_lock);
 	if (elevator_find(e->elevator_name)) {
 		spin_unlock(&elv_list_lock);
-		if (e->icq_cache)
-			kmem_cache_destroy(e->icq_cache);
+		kmem_cache_destroy(e->icq_cache);
 		return -EBUSY;
 	}
 	list_add_tail(&e->list, &elv_list);
-- 
2.9.2