Jul 08 2015

ALSA: hda: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call “kobject_put” 

Author: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>

The kobject_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 
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai 

---
 sound/hda/hdac_sysfs.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
 
diff --git a/sound/hda/hdac_sysfs.c b/sound/hda/hdac_sysfs.c
index 0a6ce3b..089b35f 100644
--- a/sound/hda/hdac_sysfs.c
+++ b/sound/hda/hdac_sysfs.c
@@ -321,8 +321,7 @@ static void widget_tree_free(struct hdac_device *codec)
 			free_widget_node(*p, &widget_node_group);
 		kfree(tree->nodes);
 	}
-	if (tree->root)
-		kobject_put(tree->root);
+	kobject_put(tree->root);
 	kfree(tree);
 	codec->widgets = NULL;
 }

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