[HPDD-discuss] [PATCH 16/20] staging: lustre: obdecho: 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/obdecho/echo_client.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdecho/echo_client.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdecho/echo_client.c index cf64538..5376178 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdecho/echo_client.c +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdecho/echo_client.c @@ -1737,10 +1737,8 @@ static int echo_client_prep_commit(const struct lu_env *env, } out: - if (lnb) - kfree(lnb); - if (rnb) - kfree(rnb); + kfree(lnb); + kfree(rnb); return ret; }