[PATCH] Driver core: small cleanup; remove check for NULL before kfree() in driver core

Remove needless checking of variable for NULL before calling kfree() on it.
Applies to 2.6.13-rc6-git9

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/base/class.c b/drivers/base/class.c
index d207296b18dc..d164c32a97ad 100644
--- a/drivers/base/class.c
+++ b/drivers/base/class.c
@@ -299,10 +299,8 @@ static void class_dev_release(struct kobject * kobj)
 
         pr_debug("device class '%s': release.\n", cd->class_id);
 
-        if (cd->devt_attr) {
-                kfree(cd->devt_attr);
-                cd->devt_attr = NULL;
-        }
+        kfree(cd->devt_attr);
+        cd->devt_attr = NULL;
 
         if (cls->release)
                 cls->release(cd);