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From: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
To: <cpw@sgi.com>, <robinmholt@gmail.com>
Cc: <arnd@arndb.de>, <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] misc: remove meanless null check before kfree
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 11:24:45 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1534476285-13097-1-git-send-email-zhongjiang@huawei.com> (raw)

kfree has taken null pointer into account. so check the null pointer
before kfree is meanless.

Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
---
 drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_partition.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_partition.c b/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_partition.c
index 0c3ef6f..3eba1c4 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_partition.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_partition.c
@@ -98,8 +98,7 @@
 			len = L1_CACHE_ALIGN(len);
 
 		if (len > buf_len) {
-			if (buf_base != NULL)
-				kfree(buf_base);
+			kfree(buf_base);
 			buf_len = L1_CACHE_ALIGN(len);
 			buf = xpc_kmalloc_cacheline_aligned(buf_len, GFP_KERNEL,
 							    &buf_base);
-- 
1.7.12.4


             reply	other threads:[~2018-08-17  3:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-17  3:24 zhong jiang [this message]
2018-08-17  3:55 ` zhong jiang

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