[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: Intel: fix ifnullfree.cocci warnings

[Jin, Yao]

The NULL check here is to proivde the protection for current code and
future potential code. It's possible that in future some code may
change the pointer ipc->msg and the author may miss the kfree here.

But anyway I'm ok if removing null check is the coding philosophy we
need to follow.

Thanks
JIn Yao

On 2015/4/13 3:06, kbuild test robot wrote:
> sound/soc/intel/common/sst-ipc.c:287:2-7: 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: Jin Yao <yao.jin at linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu at intel.com>
> ---
> 
>  sst-ipc.c |    3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> --- a/sound/soc/intel/common/sst-ipc.c
> +++ b/sound/soc/intel/common/sst-ipc.c
> @@ -283,8 +283,7 @@ void sst_ipc_fini(struct sst_generic_ipc
>  	if (ipc->tx_thread)
>  		kthread_stop(ipc->tx_thread);
>  
> -	if (ipc->msg)
> -		kfree(ipc->msg);
> +	kfree(ipc->msg);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sst_ipc_fini);
>  
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