[PATCH] remove redundant NULL check before before kfree() inkernel/sysctl.c

[Jesper Juhl]

Tiny patch to remove a redundant check for NULL pointer before calling kfree().

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@xxxxxx>

diff -up linux-2.6.11-mm4-orig/kernel/sysctl.c linux-2.6.11-mm4/kernel/sysctl.c
--- linux-2.6.11-mm4-orig/kernel/sysctl.c	2005-03-16 15:45:40.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.11-mm4/kernel/sysctl.c	2005-03-19 19:52:18.000000000 +0100
@@ -991,8 +991,7 @@ int do_sysctl(int __user *name, int nlen
 		int error = parse_table(name, nlen, oldval, oldlenp, 
 					newval, newlen, head->ctl_table,
 					&context);
-		if (context)
-			kfree(context);
+		kfree(context);
 		if (error != -ENOTDIR)
 			return error;
 		tmp = tmp->next;


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