[HPDD-discuss] [PATCH 2/20] staging: lustre: ldlm: ldlm_lock: 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/ldlm/ldlm_lock.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ldlm/ldlm_lock.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ldlm/ldlm_lock.c index 2c5fe14..6a22f41 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ldlm/ldlm_lock.c +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ldlm/ldlm_lock.c @@ -208,8 +208,7 @@ void ldlm_lock_put(struct ldlm_lock *lock) lock->l_export = NULL; } - if (lock->l_lvb_data != NULL) - kfree(lock->l_lvb_data); + kfree(lock->l_lvb_data); ldlm_interval_free(ldlm_interval_detach(lock)); lu_ref_fini(&lock->l_reference);