From: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:57:04 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: net: Remove redundant null check before kfree in dev.c
X-Git-Tag: v3.8-rc1~139^2~256
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=388dfc2d2d9c43c251921a397d6fe5ef7dc34731;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-3.10.git

net: Remove redundant null check before kfree in dev.c

kfree on a null pointer is a no-op.

Signed-off-by: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 0afae8b..7304ea8 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1153,10 +1153,8 @@ int dev_set_alias(struct net_device *dev, const char *alias, size_t len)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	if (!len) {
-		if (dev->ifalias) {
-			kfree(dev->ifalias);
-			dev->ifalias = NULL;
-		}
+		kfree(dev->ifalias);
+		dev->ifalias = NULL;
 		return 0;
 	}