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authorSachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>2012-11-20 00:57:04 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-11-20 13:48:09 -0500
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net: Remove redundant null check before kfree in dev.c
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c6
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 0afae8b..7304ea8 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -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;
}