Author: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> The put_device() 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: Greg Kroah-Hartman — drivers/base/core.c | 3 +– 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff …