linux-kernel - [PATCH] ipmi: remve duplicate code in __ipmi_bmc

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Date:   Mon, 20 Jul 2020 16:08:38 +0800
From:   Jing Xiangfeng <jingxiangfeng@...wei.com>
To:     <minyard@....org>, <arnd@...db.de>, <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        <cminyard@...sta.com>
CC:     <openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <jingxiangfeng@...wei.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ipmi: remve duplicate code in __ipmi_bmc_register()

__ipmi_bmc_register() jumps to the label 'out_free_my_dev_name' in an
error path. So we can remove duplicate code in the if (rv).

Signed-off-by: Jing Xiangfeng <jingxiangfeng@...wei.com>
---
 drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
index e1b22fe0916c..737c0b6b24ea 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
@@ -3080,8 +3080,6 @@ static int __ipmi_bmc_register(struct ipmi_smi *intf,
 	rv = sysfs_create_link(&bmc->pdev.dev.kobj, &intf->si_dev->kobj,
 			       intf->my_dev_name);
 	if (rv) {
-		kfree(intf->my_dev_name);
-		intf->my_dev_name = NULL;
 		dev_err(intf->si_dev, "Unable to create symlink to bmc: %d\n",
 			rv);
 		goto out_free_my_dev_name;
-- 
2.17.1