linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/6] net: cxgb3: remove redundant null pointer check before kfree

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Date:   Thu, 20 Sep 2018 17:37:42 +0800
From:   zhong jiang <zhongjiang@...wei.com>
To:     <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:     <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>, <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        <santosh@...lsio.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2/6] net: cxgb3: remove redundant null pointer check before kfree_skb

kfree_skb has taken the null pointer into account. hence it is safe
to remove the redundant null pointer check before kfree_skb.

Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@...wei.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/cxgb3_offload.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/cxgb3_offload.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/cxgb3_offload.c
index 50cd660..84604af 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/cxgb3_offload.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/cxgb3_offload.c
@@ -1302,8 +1302,7 @@ void cxgb3_offload_deactivate(struct adapter *adapter)
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 	RCU_INIT_POINTER(tdev->l2opt, NULL);
 	call_rcu(&d->rcu_head, clean_l2_data);
-	if (t->nofail_skb)
-		kfree_skb(t->nofail_skb);
+	kfree_skb(t->nofail_skb);
 	kfree(t);
 }
 
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