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From:   zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
To:     <cpw@sgi.com>, <robinmholt@gmail.com>
CC:     <arnd@arndb.de>, <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] misc: remove meaningless null check before kfree
Date:   Fri, 17 Aug 2018 11:42:35 +0800
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kfree has taken null pointer into account. so check the null pointer
before kfree is meaningless.

Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
---
 drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_partition.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_partition.c b/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_partition.c
index 0c3ef6f..3eba1c4 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_partition.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_partition.c
@@ -98,8 +98,7 @@
 			len = L1_CACHE_ALIGN(len);
 
 		if (len > buf_len) {
-			if (buf_base != NULL)
-				kfree(buf_base);
+			kfree(buf_base);
 			buf_len = L1_CACHE_ALIGN(len);
 			buf = xpc_kmalloc_cacheline_aligned(buf_len, GFP_KERNEL,
 							    &buf_base);
-- 
1.7.12.4