Re: [PATCH] ALSA: line6: fix ifnullfree.cocci warnings

From: Takashi Iwai
Date: Tue Sep 20 2016 - 06:54:36 EST


On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 02:10:13 +0200,
kbuild test robot wrote:
>
> sound/usb/line6/driver.c:484:2-7: WARNING: NULL check before freeing functions like kfree, debugfs_remove, debugfs_remove_recursive or usb_free_urb is not needed. Maybe consider reorganizing relevant code to avoid passing NULL values.
>
> NULL check before some freeing functions is not needed.
>
> Based on checkpatch warning
> "kfree(NULL) is safe this check is probably not required"
> and kfreeaddr.cocci by Julia Lawall.
>
> Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/free/ifnullfree.cocci
>
> CC: Andrej Krutak <dev@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.


Takashi


> ---
>
> driver.c | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/sound/usb/line6/driver.c
> +++ b/sound/usb/line6/driver.c
> @@ -480,8 +480,7 @@ static void line6_destruct(struct snd_ca
> /* Free buffer memory first. We cannot depend on the existence of private
> * data from the (podhd) module, it may be gone already during this call
> */
> - if (line6->buffer_message)
> - kfree(line6->buffer_message);
> + kfree(line6->buffer_message);
>
> kfree(line6->buffer_listen);
>
>