From htejun@gmail.com Thu Sep 20 00:05:23 2007 From: Tejun Heo Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:05:10 +0900 Subject: sysfs: kill unnecessary NULL pointer check in sysfs_release() To: ebiederm@xmission.com, cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, greg@kroah.com, stern@rowland.harvard.edu, kay.sievers@vrfy.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, htejun@gmail.com Cc: Tejun Heo Message-ID: <11902719101962-git-send-email-htejun@gmail.com> In sysfs_release(), sysfs_buffer pointed to by filp->private_data is guaranteed to exist. Kill the unnecessary NULL check. This also makes the code more consistent with the counterpart in fs/sysfs/bin.c. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Cornelia Huck Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/sysfs/file.c | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/fs/sysfs/file.c +++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c @@ -311,11 +311,10 @@ static int sysfs_release(struct inode * { struct sysfs_buffer *buffer = filp->private_data; - if (buffer) { - if (buffer->page) - free_page((unsigned long)buffer->page); - kfree(buffer); - } + if (buffer->page) + free_page((unsigned long)buffer->page); + kfree(buffer); + return 0; }