Re: [PATCH] hwmon: (occ) Delete unnecessary NULL check

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Mon Jun 06 2022 - 10:19:32 EST


On Mon, Jun 06, 2022 at 09:14:01PM +0800, Ziyang Xuan wrote:
> kvfree(NULL) is safe. NULL check before kvfree() is not needed.
> Delete them to simplify the code.
>
> Generated by coccinelle script:
> scripts/coccinelle/free/ifnullfree.cocci
>
> Signed-off-by: Ziyang Xuan <william.xuanziyang@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to hwmon-next.

Thanks,
Guenter

> ---
> drivers/hwmon/occ/p9_sbe.c | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/occ/p9_sbe.c b/drivers/hwmon/occ/p9_sbe.c
> index 42fc7b97bb34..01405ae2f9bd 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/occ/p9_sbe.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/occ/p9_sbe.c
> @@ -55,8 +55,7 @@ static bool p9_sbe_occ_save_ffdc(struct p9_sbe_occ *ctx, const void *resp,
> mutex_lock(&ctx->sbe_error_lock);
> if (!ctx->sbe_error) {
> if (resp_len > ctx->ffdc_size) {
> - if (ctx->ffdc)
> - kvfree(ctx->ffdc);
> + kvfree(ctx->ffdc);
> ctx->ffdc = kvmalloc(resp_len, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!ctx->ffdc) {
> ctx->ffdc_len = 0;
> @@ -171,8 +170,7 @@ static int p9_sbe_occ_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> ctx->sbe = NULL;
> occ_shutdown(occ);
>
> - if (ctx->ffdc)
> - kvfree(ctx->ffdc);
> + kvfree(ctx->ffdc);
>
> return 0;
> }
> --
> 2.25.1
>