netdev - Re: orinoco: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "kfree"

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Message-Id: <20150206065107.6C81D140CDD@smtp.codeaurora.org>
Date:	Fri,  6 Feb 2015 06:51:07 +0000 (UTC)
From:	Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: Re: orinoco: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call
 "kfree"


> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 19:53:11 +0100
> 
> The kfree() 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>

Thanks, applied to wireless-drivers-next.git.

Kalle Valo
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