Author: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> The functions kfree() and release_firmware() test whether their argument is NULL and then return 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/pci/hda/hda_codec.c | 3 +– sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c | 3 +– 2 files changed, …