From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== commit 5f0163a5ee9cc7c59751768bdfd94a73186debba upstream. The put_device() function tests whether its argument is NULL and then returns immediately. Thus the test around the call is not needed. This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/base/core.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c index 944fecd32e9f..90458b1719a8 100644 --- a/drivers/base/core.c +++ b/drivers/base/core.c @@ -1185,8 +1185,7 @@ done: kobject_del(&dev->kobj); Error: cleanup_device_parent(dev); - if (parent) - put_device(parent); + put_device(parent); name_error: kfree(dev->p); dev->p = NULL; -- 2.11.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html