[PATCH 1/2 v2] HID: kfree() NULL pointer cleanup

From: Bojan Prtvar
Date: Thu Aug 04 2011 - 17:47:41 EST


Checking for NULL pointers before kfree() is redundant.
v2:
No need for freeing pm in case when it's not allocated.

Reported-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Bojan Prtvar <prtvar.b@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hid/hid-prodikeys.c | 8 ++++----
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-prodikeys.c b/drivers/hid/hid-prodikeys.c
index 158b389..f779009 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-prodikeys.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-prodikeys.c
@@ -816,7 +816,7 @@ static int pk_probe(struct hid_device *hdev, const struct hid_device_id *id)
if (pm == NULL) {
hid_err(hdev, "can't alloc descriptor\n");
ret = -ENOMEM;
- goto err_free;
+ goto err_free_pk;
}

pm->pk = pk;
@@ -849,10 +849,10 @@ static int pk_probe(struct hid_device *hdev, const struct hid_device_id *id)
err_stop:
hid_hw_stop(hdev);
err_free:
- if (pm != NULL)
- kfree(pm);
-
+ kfree(pm);
+err_free_pk:
kfree(pk);
+
return ret;
}

--
1.7.1

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