From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

usb_free_urb() can take a NULL, so let's check and warn about that.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 scripts/checkpatch.pl |    7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-usb_free_urb-can-take-null scripts/checkpatch.pl
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-usb_free_urb-can-take-null
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2078,6 +2078,13 @@ sub process {
 				WARN("kfree(NULL) is safe this check is probabally not required\n" . $hereprev);
 			}
 		}
+# check for needless usb_free_urb() checks
+		if ($prevline =~ /\bif\s*\(([^\)]*)\)/) {
+			my $expr = $1;
+			if ($line =~ /\busb_free_urb\(\Q$expr\E\);/) {
+				WARN("usb_free_urb(NULL) is safe this check is probably not required\n" . $hereprev);
+			}
+		}
 
 # warn about #ifdefs in C files
 #		if ($line =~ /^.\s*\#\s*if(|n)def/ && ($realfile =~ /\.c$/)) {
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