Staging: lustre: osc: Remove null check before kfree
authorShraddha Barke <shraddha.6596@gmail.com>
Mon, 12 Oct 2015 15:19:18 +0000 (20:49 +0530)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 12 Oct 2015 23:45:21 +0000 (16:45 -0700)
kfree on NULL pointer is a no-op.
The semantic patch used to find such an instance where NULL check is
present before kfree-

// <smpl>
@@ expression E; @@
- if (E != NULL) { kfree(E); }
+ kfree(E);
@@ expression E; @@
- if (E != NULL) { kfree(E); E = NULL; }
+ kfree(E);
+ E = NULL;
// </smpl>smpl>

Signed-off-by: Shraddha Barke <shraddha.6596@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/osc/osc_request.c

index 225e5ed6714fb7d418e13da6940177707471d6e7..86c0303eb24a9cd661d810eeab295b5fe6b728c5 100644 (file)
@@ -1998,9 +1998,7 @@ out:
        if (mem_tight != 0)
                cfs_memory_pressure_restore(mpflag);
 
-       if (crattr != NULL) {
-               kfree(crattr);
-       }
+       kfree(crattr);
 
        if (rc != 0) {
                LASSERT(req == NULL);