[HPDD-discuss] [PATCH 9/20] staging: lustre: lmv: remove unneeded null test before free

Kfree can cope with a null argument, so drop null tests. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ expression ptr; @@ - if (ptr != NULL) kfree(ptr); // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall(a)lip6.fr&gt; --- drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lmv/lmv_obd.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lmv/lmv_obd.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lmv/lmv_obd.c index 59b8fac..8e05852 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lmv/lmv_obd.c +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lmv/lmv_obd.c @@ -504,8 +504,7 @@ static int lmv_add_target(struct obd_device *obd, struct obd_uuid *uuidp, lmv->tgts = newtgts; lmv->tgts_size = newsize; smp_rmb(); - if (old) - kfree(old); + kfree(old); CDEBUG(D_CONFIG, "tgts: %p size: %d\n", lmv->tgts, lmv->tgts_size); @@ -780,8 +779,7 @@ repeat_fid2path: goto repeat_fid2path; out_fid2path: - if (remote_gf != NULL) - kfree(remote_gf); + kfree(remote_gf); return rc; }