Re: [PATCH] wireless: remove unnecessary condition check before kfree

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Mon Sep 10 2018 - 03:10:21 EST


On Sat, 2018-09-08 at 22:12 +0800, zhong jiang wrote:
> kfree has taken the null pointer into account. Just remove the
> redundant condition check before kfree.

I'm all for doing that if it actually removes conditionals, but

> - if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(regdb))
> + if (!IS_ERR(regdb))
> kfree(regdb);

this seems rather pointless since there's still a condition. In that
case, I feel it's easier to understand the original code.

johannes