kfree has taken the null pointer into account. hence it is safe to remove the redundant null pointer check before kfree.
Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongji...@huawei.com> --- drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c b/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c index 4c49bb1..c37021d 100644 --- a/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c +++ b/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c @@ -675,8 +675,7 @@ struct devfreq *devfreq_add_device(struct device *dev, device_unregister(&devfreq->dev); devfreq = NULL; err_dev: - if (devfreq) - kfree(devfreq); + kfree(devfreq); err_out: return ERR_PTR(err); } -- 1.7.12.4