> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wu, Fengguang
> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 1:36 PM
> To: Weiny, Ira
> Cc: [email protected]; Roland Dreier; Hefty, Sean; Hal Rosenstock; Or Gerlitz;
> Yan Burman; [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: [PATCH] IB/mad: fix ifnullfree.cocci warnings
> 
> drivers/infiniband/core/mad.c:2088:3-8: WARNING: NULL check before freeing
> functions like kfree, debugfs_remove, debugfs_remove_recursive or
> usb_free_urb is not needed. Maybe consider reorganizing relevant code to
> avoid passing NULL values.
> 
>  NULL check before some freeing functions is not needed.
> 
>  Based on checkpatch warning
>  "kfree(NULL) is safe this check is probably not required"
>  and kfreeaddr.cocci by Julia Lawall.
> 
> Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/free/ifnullfree.cocci
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <[email protected]>


Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny <[email protected]>


> ---
> 
>  mad.c |    3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/mad.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/mad.c
> @@ -2084,8 +2084,7 @@ out:
>       /* Post another receive request for this QP */
>       if (response) {
>               ib_mad_post_receive_mads(qp_info, response);
> -             if (recv)
> -                     kfree(recv);
> +             kfree(recv);
>       } else
>               ib_mad_post_receive_mads(qp_info, recv);  }
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