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 <amitoj1...@gmail.com> --- 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; -- 1.9.1