Nov 23 2014

video: uvesafb: Deletion of an unnecessary check before the function call “uvesafb_free” 

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

The uvesafb_free() 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: Tomi Valkeinen 

---
 drivers/video/fbdev/uvesafb.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
 
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/uvesafb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/uvesafb.c
index 509d452..f718627 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/uvesafb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/uvesafb.c
@@ -1219,8 +1219,7 @@ static int uvesafb_release(struct fb_info *info, int user)
 	uvesafb_vbe_state_restore(par, par->vbe_state_orig);
 out:
 	atomic_dec(&par->ref_count);
-	if (task)
-		uvesafb_free(task);
+	uvesafb_free(task);
 	return 0;
 }

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