[HPDD-discuss] [PATCH 19/20] staging: lustre: ptlrpc: sec_plain: 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/ptlrpc/sec_plain.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/sec_plain.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/sec_plain.c index 604e511..989cdcd 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/sec_plain.c +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/sec_plain.c @@ -384,8 +384,7 @@ struct ptlrpc_cli_ctx *plain_sec_install_ctx(struct plain_sec *plsec) if (ctx) { atomic_inc(&ctx->cc_refcount); - if (ctx_new) - kfree(ctx_new); + kfree(ctx_new); } else if (ctx_new) { ctx = ctx_new;