From: Markus Elfring Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 13:05:27 +0000 (+0100) Subject: ASoC: omap-mcbsp: Deletion of an unnecessary check before the function call "kfree" X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~176^2~2610^2~38^2~14^5 X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bb66f2dc197d9cf1daaa82609302204d71c70389;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git ASoC: omap-mcbsp: Deletion of an unnecessary check before the function call "kfree" 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 Acked-by: Jarkko Nikula Signed-off-by: Mark Brown --- diff --git a/sound/soc/omap/mcbsp.c b/sound/soc/omap/mcbsp.c index 86c75384c3c8..68a125205375 100644 --- a/sound/soc/omap/mcbsp.c +++ b/sound/soc/omap/mcbsp.c @@ -621,8 +621,7 @@ void omap_mcbsp_free(struct omap_mcbsp *mcbsp) mcbsp->reg_cache = NULL; spin_unlock(&mcbsp->lock); - if (reg_cache) - kfree(reg_cache); + kfree(reg_cache); } /*