[PATCH] ext4: remove superfluous check that pointer is not NULL

From: Tudor Ambarus
Date: Mon May 08 2023 - 11:13:50 EST


If @buffer is NULL, no operation is performed for kvfree(buffer),
remove superfluous check.

Signed-off-by: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/xattr.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
index dfc2e223bd10..6778c6eb6e30 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
@@ -2676,7 +2676,7 @@ static int ext4_xattr_move_to_block(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,

out:
kfree(b_entry_name);
- if (needs_kvfree && buffer)
+ if (needs_kvfree)
kvfree(buffer);
if (is)
brelse(is->iloc.bh);
--
2.40.1.521.gf1e218fcd8-goog