Author: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> Kfree can cope with a null argument, so drop null tests. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @@ expression ptr; @@ – if (ptr != NULL) kfree(ptr); // Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman — drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdecho/echo_client.c | 6 ++—- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 …