net: Remove redundant null check before kfree in dev.c
authorSachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>
Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:57:04 +0000 (00:57 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 20 Nov 2012 18:48:09 +0000 (13:48 -0500)
kfree on a null pointer is a no-op.

Signed-off-by: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/core/dev.c

index 0afae8ba413e4976966f357bea2783727761ac1a..7304ea8a1f13a15097619c68d14820e963695573 100644 (file)
@@ -1153,10 +1153,8 @@ int dev_set_alias(struct net_device *dev, const char *alias, size_t len)
                return -EINVAL;
 
        if (!len) {
-               if (dev->ifalias) {
-                       kfree(dev->ifalias);
-                       dev->ifalias = NULL;
-               }
+               kfree(dev->ifalias);
+               dev->ifalias = NULL;
                return 0;
        }