From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 22:12:49 +0200 The script "checkpatch.pl" pointed information out like the following. WARNING: kfree(NULL) is safe and this check is probably not required Thus fix the affected source code places. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/usb/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-ioread.c | 12 ++++-------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-ioread.c b/drivers/media/usb/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-ioread.c index 0218614ce988..4349f9b5f838 100644 --- a/drivers/media/usb/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-ioread.c +++ b/drivers/media/usb/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-ioread.c @@ -98,10 +98,8 @@ void pvr2_ioread_destroy(struct pvr2_ioread *cp) if (!cp) return; pvr2_ioread_done(cp); pvr2_trace(PVR2_TRACE_STRUCT,"pvr2_ioread_destroy id=%p",cp); - if (cp->sync_key_ptr) { - kfree(cp->sync_key_ptr); - cp->sync_key_ptr = NULL; - } + kfree(cp->sync_key_ptr); + cp->sync_key_ptr = NULL; kfree(cp); } @@ -117,10 +115,8 @@ void pvr2_ioread_set_sync_key(struct pvr2_ioread *cp, (!memcmp(sync_key_ptr,cp->sync_key_ptr,sync_key_len)))) return; if (sync_key_len != cp->sync_key_len) { - if (cp->sync_key_ptr) { - kfree(cp->sync_key_ptr); - cp->sync_key_ptr = NULL; - } + kfree(cp->sync_key_ptr); + cp->sync_key_ptr = NULL; cp->sync_key_len = 0; if (sync_key_len) { cp->sync_key_ptr = kmalloc(sync_key_len,GFP_KERNEL); -- 2.14.1