linux-kernel - kernel/irq/irqdomain.c:1669:2-16: WARNING: NULL check before freeing functions like kfree, debugfs_remove, debugfs_remove_recursive or usb_free_urb is not needed. Maybe consider reorganizing relevant code to avoid passing NULL values.

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Date:   Fri, 7 Jul 2017 07:44:10 +0800
From:   kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     kbuild-all@...org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: kernel/irq/irqdomain.c:1669:2-16: WARNING: NULL check before freeing
 functions like kfree, debugfs_remove, debugfs_remove_recursive or
 usb_free_urb is not needed. Maybe consider reorganizing relevant code to
 avoid passing NULL values.

tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
head:   90311148415ab23f5767fbb577a012d4405f12e5
commit: 087cdfb662ae50e3826e7cd2e54b6519d07b60f0 genirq/debugfs: Add proper debugfs interface
date:   2 weeks ago


coccinelle warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>)

>> kernel/irq/irqdomain.c:1669:2-16: WARNING: NULL check before freeing functions like kfree, debugfs_remove, debugfs_remove_recursive or usb_free_urb is not needed. Maybe consider reorganizing relevant code to avoid passing NULL values.

vim +1669 kernel/irq/irqdomain.c

  1653		.read		= seq_read,
  1654		.llseek		= seq_lseek,
  1655		.release	= single_release,
  1656	};
  1657	
  1658	static void debugfs_add_domain_dir(struct irq_domain *d)
  1659	{
  1660		if (!d->name || !domain_dir || d->debugfs_file)
  1661			return;
  1662		d->debugfs_file = debugfs_create_file(d->name, 0444, domain_dir, d,
  1663						      &dfs_domain_ops);
  1664	}
  1665	
  1666	static void debugfs_remove_domain_dir(struct irq_domain *d)
  1667	{
  1668		if (d->debugfs_file)
> 1669			debugfs_remove(d->debugfs_file);
  1670	}
  1671	
  1672	void __init irq_domain_debugfs_init(struct dentry *root)
  1673	{
  1674		struct irq_domain *d;
  1675	
  1676		domain_dir = debugfs_create_dir("domains", root);
  1677		if (!domain_dir)

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