Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932105AbaKPMeo (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Nov 2014 07:34:44 -0500 Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.17.11]:62656 "EHLO mout.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755644AbaKPMel (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Nov 2014 07:34:41 -0500 Message-ID: <546899CF.8020808@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 13:34:23 +0100 From: SF Markus Elfring User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , Anil S Keshavamurthy , "David S. Miller" , Masami Hiramatsu CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Coccinelle Subject: [PATCH 1/1] kprobes: Deletion of an unnecessary check before the function call "module_put" References: <5307CAA2.8060406@users.sourceforge.net> <530A086E.8010901@users.sourceforge.net> <530A72AA.3000601@users.sourceforge.net> <530B5FB6.6010207@users.sourceforge.net> <530C5E18.1020800@users.sourceforge.net> <530CD2C4.4050903@users.sourceforge.net> <530CF8FF.8080600@users.sourceforge.net> <530DD06F.4090703@users.sourceforge.net> <5317A59D.4@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <5317A59D.4@users.sourceforge.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:pZyvRpoZ8uGzQCbeHBdM3bgg7kVkbrkZoJ2VYfFw1Ug8yXHpMhH AJlBkwUnIhiUm7e3ravNmkK9E83KpvRUmVW4XCLgYj9ipMfxW6NXBgTqNbWGuaaYfIniJk/ 7+6UXNvnyrf9ZRiL3wVqR5X1TMaI+vnatl2cj188exLlGLig2+hl4Fn/Cu0Co15lt+AR1X5 xNWdjcd6rB9cmbLM9y7Kw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1; Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Markus Elfring Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 12:20:31 +0100 The module_put() 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 --- kernel/kprobes.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c index 3995f54..f1e7d45 100644 --- a/kernel/kprobes.c +++ b/kernel/kprobes.c @@ -1527,8 +1527,7 @@ int register_kprobe(struct kprobe *p) out: mutex_unlock(&kprobe_mutex); - if (probed_mod) - module_put(probed_mod); + module_put(probed_mod); return ret; } -- 2.1.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/