Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2015-02-05

[PATCH] cxgb4: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "release_firmware"

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From: SF Markus Elfring <hidden>
Date: 2015-02-04 10:38:55
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Subsystem: cxgb4 ethernet driver (cxgb4), networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Potnuri Bharat Teja, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

From: Markus Elfring <redacted>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 11:28:43 +0100

The release_firmware() 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>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_main.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_main.c
index 1147e1e..6d08b8c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_main.c
@@ -5129,8 +5129,7 @@ static int adap_init0(struct adapter *adap)
 				 state, &reset);
 
 		/* Cleaning up */
-		if (fw != NULL)
-			release_firmware(fw);
+		release_firmware(fw);
 		t4_free_mem(card_fw);
 
 		if (ret < 0)
-- 
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