linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] staging: r8188eu: remove unnecessary braces in single statement block

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Date:   Wed, 13 Apr 2022 23:24:46 +0300
From:   Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@...il.com>
To:     Jaehee Park <jhpark1013@...il.com>, Larry.Finger@...inger.net
Cc:     phil@...lpotter.co.uk, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        outreachy@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] staging: r8188eu: remove unnecessary braces in single
 statement block

Hi Jaehee,

On 4/13/22 23:11, Jaehee Park wrote:
> Remove braces for single statement block to minimize the number of
> empty lines, without loss of readability. Issue found with checkpatch.
> WARNING: braces {} are not necessary for single statement blocks
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jaehee Park <jhpark1013@...il.com>
> ---
>   drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c | 3 +--
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c
> index 3e9882f89f76..d3f4d7cdfa08 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c
> @@ -112,9 +112,8 @@ void _rtw_free_mlme_priv(struct mlme_priv *pmlmepriv)
>   
>   	rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data(pmlmepriv);
>   
> -	if (pmlmepriv) {
> +	if (pmlmepriv)
>   		vfree(pmlmepriv->free_bss_buf);
> -	}
>   

If pmlmepriv is equal to NULL we would die in 
rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data(), so this check is just redundant




With regards,
Pavel Skripkin