[PATCH] elevator: remove unneeded kfree in error path of elevator_alloc

From: Chao Yu
Date: Thu Apr 23 2015 - 03:44:57 EST


In elevator_alloc, if we fail to allocate memory for storing elevator
queue, our eq pointer must be NULL, we do not need to release it in error
path, so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
block/elevator.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/block/elevator.c b/block/elevator.c
index 59794d0..d146a5e 100644
--- a/block/elevator.c
+++ b/block/elevator.c
@@ -166,7 +166,6 @@ struct elevator_queue *elevator_alloc(struct request_queue *q,

return eq;
err:
- kfree(eq);
elevator_put(e);
return NULL;
}
--
2.3.3


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