1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/event.c b/drivers/acpi/event.c
index ef2d730734dc..e24ea4e796e4 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/event.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/event.c
@@ -100,7 +100,6 @@ int acpi_bus_generate_netlink_event(const char *device_class,
         struct acpi_genl_event *event;
         void *msg_header;
         int size;
-        int result;
 
         /* allocate memory */
         size = nla_total_size(sizeof(struct acpi_genl_event)) +
@@ -137,11 +136,7 @@ int acpi_bus_generate_netlink_event(const char *device_class,
         event->data = data;
 
         /* send multicast genetlink message */
-        result = genlmsg_end(skb, msg_header);
-        if (result < 0) {
-                nlmsg_free(skb);
-                return result;
-        }
+        genlmsg_end(skb, msg_header);
 
         genlmsg_multicast(&acpi_event_genl_family, skb, 0, 0, GFP_ATOMIC);
         return 0;