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authorJesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>2005-06-25 14:58:48 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-06-25 16:24:59 -0700
commit5a6b454f8024bac68495b6cd51615feb0b54baa9 (patch)
tree5514a66b49478b01c67527bb34b0f16aae4511e7 /kernel
parent486fd404fbc840e28a959d2f2842b6c46ed6b250 (diff)
downloadlinux-5a6b454f8024bac68495b6cd51615feb0b54baa9.tar.bz2
[PATCH] remove redundant NULL check before before kfree() in kernel/sysctl.c
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 24a4d12d5aa9..270ee7fadbd8 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1000,8 +1000,7 @@ int do_sysctl(int __user *name, int nlen, void __user *oldval, size_t __user *ol
int error = parse_table(name, nlen, oldval, oldlenp,
newval, newlen, head->ctl_table,
&context);
- if (context)
- kfree(context);
+ kfree(context);
if (error != -ENOTDIR)
return error;
tmp = tmp->next;