[PATCH 1/2] liquidio: remove unnecessary NULL check before kfree in delete_glists

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Tue Oct 17 2017 - 14:59:29 EST


NULL check before freeing functions like kfree is not needed.

This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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This code was tested by compilation only.

drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_main.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_main.c
index 2e993ce..e4a112c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_main.c
@@ -435,8 +435,7 @@ static void delete_glists(struct lio *lio)
do {
g = (struct octnic_gather *)
list_delete_head(&lio->glist[i]);
- if (g)
- kfree(g);
+ kfree(g);
} while (g);

if (lio->glists_virt_base && lio->glists_virt_base[i] &&
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2.7.4