Nov 21 2014

IDE: Deletion of an unnecessary check before the function call “module_put” 

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

The module_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: David S. Miller 

---
 drivers/ide/ide.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
 
diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide.c b/drivers/ide/ide.c
index 2ce6268..e29b02c 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide.c
@@ -101,8 +101,7 @@ void ide_device_put(ide_drive_t *drive)
 	struct device *host_dev = drive->hwif->host->dev[0];
 	struct module *module = host_dev ? host_dev->driver->owner : NULL;
 
-	if (module)
-		module_put(module);
+	module_put(module);
 #endif
 	put_device(&drive->gendev);
 }

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