We recently changed this function in commit f9fc54d313fa ("ethtool: check the return value of get_regs_len") such that if "reglen" is zero we return directly. That means we can remove this condition as well. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/core/ethtool.c | 9 +++------ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/ethtool.c b/net/core/ethtool.c index 158264f7cfaf..3fe6e9da3579 100644 --- a/net/core/ethtool.c +++ b/net/core/ethtool.c @@ -1348,12 +1348,9 @@ static int ethtool_get_regs(struct net_device *dev, char __user *useraddr) if (regs.len > reglen) regs.len = reglen; - regbuf = NULL; - if (reglen) { - regbuf = vzalloc(reglen); - if (!regbuf) - return -ENOMEM; - } + regbuf = vzalloc(reglen); + if (!regbuf) + return -ENOMEM; ops->get_regs(dev, ®s, regbuf); -- 2.17.1