tty-hvsi_lib: Deletion of an unnecessary check before the function call "tty_kref_put"

The tty_kref_put() function tests whether its argument is NULL and then
returns immediately. Thus the test around the call is not needed.

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvsi_lib.c b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvsi_lib.c
index 7ae6c293e518..a270f04588d7 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvsi_lib.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvsi_lib.c
@@ -405,8 +405,7 @@ void hvsilib_close(struct hvsi_priv *pv, struct hvc_struct *hp)
                 hvsi_send_close(pv);
         }
 
-        if (pv->tty)
-                tty_kref_put(pv->tty);
+        tty_kref_put(pv->tty);
         pv->tty = NULL;
 }