[PATCH] net, ipv6: remove redundant NULL checks before kfree in ip6_flowlabel.c

[Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@xxxxxx>]

kfree() has no problems dealing with NULL pointers, so wrapping checks for 
null round calls to it is redundant. This patch gets rid of two such 
checks in net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c

I considered also rewriting the 
        if (fl)
                fl_free(fl);
bit as simply fl_free(fl) as well, but that if() potentially saves two 
calls to kfree() inside fl_free as well as the call to fl_free itself, so 
I guess that's worth the if().

Please consider applying.


Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@xxxxxx>

diff -up linux-2.6.11-mm4-orig/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c 
linux-2.6.11-mm4/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c
--- linux-2.6.11-mm4-orig/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c      2005-03-02 
08:37:50.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.11-mm4/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c   2005-03-17 00:23:30.000000000 
+0100
@@ -87,8 +87,7 @@ static struct ip6_flowlabel * fl_lookup(
 
 static void fl_free(struct ip6_flowlabel *fl)
 {
-       if (fl->opt)
-               kfree(fl->opt);
+       kfree(fl->opt);
        kfree(fl);
 }
 
@@ -553,8 +552,7 @@ release:
 done:
        if (fl)
                fl_free(fl);
-       if (sfl1)
-               kfree(sfl1);
+       kfree(sfl1);
        return err;
 }
 



-- 
Jesper Juhl

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