May 28 2016

um: Eliminate null test after alloc_bootmem 

Author: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@gmail.com>

alloc_bootmem function never returns NULL. Thus a NULL test after a
call to this function is unnecessary.

The Coccinelle semantic patch used to make this change is follows:
@@
expression E;
statement S;
@@

E =
alloc_bootmem(...)
... when != E
- if (E == NULL) S

Signed-off-by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla 
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger 

---
 arch/um/kernel/initrd.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
 
diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/initrd.c b/arch/um/kernel/initrd.c
index 55cead8..48bae81 100644
--- a/arch/um/kernel/initrd.c
+++ b/arch/um/kernel/initrd.c
@@ -37,8 +37,6 @@ static int __init read_initrd(void)
 	}
 
 	area = alloc_bootmem(size);
-	if (area == NULL)
-		return 0;
 
 	if (load_initrd(initrd, area, size) == -1)
 		return 0;

qlambert