Nov 20 2014

net: USB: Deletion of unnecessary checks before the function call “kfree” 

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

The kfree() 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/net/usb/asix_devices.c | 3 +--
 drivers/net/usb/hso.c          | 3 +--
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/asix_devices.c b/drivers/net/usb/asix_devices.c
index 816d511..bf49792 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/asix_devices.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/asix_devices.c
@@ -487,8 +487,7 @@ static int ax88772_bind(struct usbnet *dev, struct usb_interface *intf)
 
 static void ax88772_unbind(struct usbnet *dev, struct usb_interface *intf)
 {
-	if (dev->driver_priv)
-		kfree(dev->driver_priv);
+	kfree(dev->driver_priv);
 }
 
 static const struct ethtool_ops ax88178_ethtool_ops = {
diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/hso.c b/drivers/net/usb/hso.c
index babda7d..9c5aa92 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/hso.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/hso.c
@@ -2746,8 +2746,7 @@ exit:
 		tty_unregister_device(tty_drv, serial->minor);
 		kfree(serial);
 	}
-	if (hso_dev)
-		kfree(hso_dev);
+	kfree(hso_dev);
 	return NULL;
 
 }

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