[PATCH] md: remove unneeded NULL checks before kfree

This patch removes some unneeded checks of pointers being NULL before
calling kfree() on them.  kfree() handles NULL pointers just fine, checking
first is pointless.

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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
index 0dd6c2b5391b..d0a4bab220e5 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
@@ -704,8 +704,7 @@ static void crypt_dtr(struct dm_target *ti)
         mempool_destroy(cc->page_pool);
         mempool_destroy(cc->io_pool);
 
-        if (cc->iv_mode)
-                kfree(cc->iv_mode);
+        kfree(cc->iv_mode);
         if (cc->iv_gen_ops && cc->iv_gen_ops->dtr)
                 cc->iv_gen_ops->dtr(cc);
         crypto_free_tfm(cc->tfm);