[PATCH 17/28] coresight: tmc: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "kfree"
From: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org (Mathieu Poirier)
Date: 2016-08-25 21:27:24
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arm/coresight framework and drivers, hardware tracing facilities, the rest · Maintainers:
Suzuki K Poulose, Alexander Shishkin, Linus Torvalds
From: Markus Elfring <redacted> 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 <redacted> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> --- drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etf.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etf.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etf.c
index e68289b8c072..5fa49c4252f6 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etf.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etf.c@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ out: spin_unlock_irqrestore(&drvdata->spinlock, flags); /* Free memory outside the spinlock if need be */ - if (!used && buf) + if (!used) kfree(buf); if (!ret)
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