> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2022 08:05
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>; Wang, Haiyue
> <haiyue.w...@intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH 53/82] net/igc: remove unnecessary NULL checks
>
> Remove redundant NULL pointer checks before free functions
> found by nullfree.cocci
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>
> ---
> drivers/net/igc/igc_flow.c | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/igc/igc_flow.c b/drivers/net/igc/igc_flow.c
> index 66053060af5a..88978ee0e849 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/igc/igc_flow.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/igc/igc_flow.c
> @@ -776,8 +776,7 @@ igc_flow_create(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
>
> if (ret) {
> /* check and free the memory */
This comment line can be removed either, since 'check' is done by 'rte_free'
internally.
> - if (flow)
> - rte_free(flow);
> + rte_free(flow);
>
> rte_flow_error_set(error, -ret,
> RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_HANDLE, NULL,
> --
> 2.30.2
