[alsa-devel] ASoC: omap-mcbsp: Deletion of an unnecessary check before the function call "kfree"

SF Markus Elfring elfring at users.sourceforge.net
Mon Nov 17 14:15:01 CET 2014


From: Markus Elfring <elfring at users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 14:05:27 +0100

The kfree() function tests whether its argument is NULL and then
returns immediately. Thus the test around the call is not needed.

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring at users.sourceforge.net>
---
 sound/soc/omap/mcbsp.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/soc/omap/mcbsp.c b/sound/soc/omap/mcbsp.c
index 86c7538..68a1252 100644
--- a/sound/soc/omap/mcbsp.c
+++ b/sound/soc/omap/mcbsp.c
@@ -621,8 +621,7 @@ void omap_mcbsp_free(struct omap_mcbsp *mcbsp)
 	mcbsp->reg_cache = NULL;
 	spin_unlock(&mcbsp->lock);
 
-	if (reg_cache)
-		kfree(reg_cache);
+	kfree(reg_cache);
 }
 
 /*
-- 
2.1.3



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