It is safe to call kfree(NULL) which makes this extra check unneeded. It was found using checkpatch.pl from linux-2.6
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann sven.eckelmann@gmx.de --- batman-adv-kernelland/hard-interface.c | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/batman-adv-kernelland/hard-interface.c b/batman-adv-kernelland/hard-interface.c index e9cb977..28d02f6 100644 --- a/batman-adv-kernelland/hard-interface.c +++ b/batman-adv-kernelland/hard-interface.c @@ -399,8 +399,7 @@ int hardif_add_interface(char *dev, int if_num) return 1;
out: - if (batman_if->packet_buff) - kfree(batman_if->packet_buff); + kfree(batman_if->packet_buff); kfree(batman_if); kfree(dev); return -1;