[PATCH] remove redundant NULL check before before kfree() in kernel/sysctl.c

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 24a4d12d5aa9b40bc8e2ea57dde06f1075e70135..270ee7fadbd83d0d90ee732ffd7904c3b8c34d65 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1000,8 +1000,7 @@ int do_sysctl(int __user *name, int nlen, void __user *oldval, size_t __user *ol
                int error = parse_table(name, nlen, oldval, oldlenp, 
                                        newval, newlen, head->ctl_table,
                                        &context);
-               if (context)
-                       kfree(context);
+               kfree(context);
                if (error != -ENOTDIR)
                        return error;
                tmp = tmp->next;