From: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:48 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [PATCH] remove redundant NULL check before before kfree() in kernel/sysctl.c
X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5a6b454f8024bac68495b6cd51615feb0b54baa9;p=GitHub%2Fmt8127%2Fandroid_kernel_alcatel_ttab.git

[PATCH] remove redundant NULL check before before kfree() in kernel/sysctl.c

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 24a4d12d5aa9..270ee7fadbd8 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1000,8 +1000,7 @@ int do_sysctl(int __user *name, int nlen, void __user *oldval, size_t __user *ol
 		int error = parse_table(name, nlen, oldval, oldlenp, 
 					newval, newlen, head->ctl_table,
 					&context);
-		if (context)
-			kfree(context);
+		kfree(context);
 		if (error != -ENOTDIR)
 			return error;
 		tmp = tmp->next;