From: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:06:34 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: [PATCH] Driver core: small cleanup; remove check for NULL before kfree() in driver... 
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.14-rc1~751^2~1
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fef6ec8dd96205fb22e3cfe2e4abd69d89413631;p=linux-2.6

[PATCH] Driver core: small cleanup; remove check for NULL before kfree() in driver core

Remove needless checking of variable for NULL before calling kfree() on it.
Applies to 2.6.13-rc6-git9

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---

diff --git a/drivers/base/class.c b/drivers/base/class.c
index d207296b18..d164c32a97 100644
--- a/drivers/base/class.c
+++ b/drivers/base/class.c
@@ -299,10 +299,8 @@ static void class_dev_release(struct kobject * kobj)
 
 	pr_debug("device class '%s': release.\n", cd->class_id);
 
-	if (cd->devt_attr) {
-		kfree(cd->devt_attr);
-		cd->devt_attr = NULL;
-	}
+	kfree(cd->devt_attr);
+	cd->devt_attr = NULL;
 
 	if (cls->release)
 		cls->release(cd);