* [PATCH] Remove two unused variables and two useless calls to kfree
@ 2012-12-08 15:25 Peter Senna Tschudin
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From: Peter Senna Tschudin @ 2012-12-08 15:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gregkh; +Cc: linux-kernel, kernel-janitors, Peter Senna Tschudin
old_class_name, and new_class_name are never used. This patch remove the
declaration and calls to kfree.
The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@r1 forall@
type T; identifier i;
@@
* T *i = NULL;
... when != i
* kfree(i);
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>
---
drivers/base/core.c | 4 ----
1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index a235085..27603a6 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -1685,8 +1685,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_destroy);
*/
int device_rename(struct device *dev, const char *new_name)
{
- char *old_class_name = NULL;
- char *new_class_name = NULL;
char *old_device_name = NULL;
int error;
@@ -1717,8 +1715,6 @@ int device_rename(struct device *dev, const char *new_name)
out:
put_device(dev);
- kfree(new_class_name);
- kfree(old_class_name);
kfree(old_device_name);
return error;
--
1.7.11.7
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