driver core: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "put_device"

The put_device() 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/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 07304a3b9ee2..e0998b6b6c49 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -1095,8 +1095,7 @@ done:
         kobject_del(&dev->kobj);
  Error:
         cleanup_device_parent(dev);
-        if (parent)
-                put_device(parent);
+        put_device(parent);
 name_error:
         kfree(dev->p);
         dev->p = NULL;