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Sender: Guenter Roeck <groeck7@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 6 Jun 2022 07:19:18 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To:     Ziyang Xuan <william.xuanziyang@huawei.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwmon: (occ) Delete unnecessary NULL check
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On Mon, Jun 06, 2022 at 09:14:01PM +0800, Ziyang Xuan wrote:
> kvfree(NULL) is safe. NULL check before kvfree() is not needed.
> Delete them to simplify the code.
> 
> Generated by coccinelle script:
> 	scripts/coccinelle/free/ifnullfree.cocci
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ziyang Xuan <william.xuanziyang@huawei.com>

Applied to hwmon-next.

Thanks,
Guenter

> ---
>  drivers/hwmon/occ/p9_sbe.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/occ/p9_sbe.c b/drivers/hwmon/occ/p9_sbe.c
> index 42fc7b97bb34..01405ae2f9bd 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/occ/p9_sbe.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/occ/p9_sbe.c
> @@ -55,8 +55,7 @@ static bool p9_sbe_occ_save_ffdc(struct p9_sbe_occ *ctx, const void *resp,
>  	mutex_lock(&ctx->sbe_error_lock);
>  	if (!ctx->sbe_error) {
>  		if (resp_len > ctx->ffdc_size) {
> -			if (ctx->ffdc)
> -				kvfree(ctx->ffdc);
> +			kvfree(ctx->ffdc);
>  			ctx->ffdc = kvmalloc(resp_len, GFP_KERNEL);
>  			if (!ctx->ffdc) {
>  				ctx->ffdc_len = 0;
> @@ -171,8 +170,7 @@ static int p9_sbe_occ_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	ctx->sbe = NULL;
>  	occ_shutdown(occ);
>  
> -	if (ctx->ffdc)
> -		kvfree(ctx->ffdc);
> +	kvfree(ctx->ffdc);
>  
>  	return 0;
>  }
> -- 
> 2.25.1
>