[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/linear.c b/drivers/md/linear.c
index b1941b887f46..8d740013d74d 100644
--- a/drivers/md/linear.c
+++ b/drivers/md/linear.c
@@ -217,8 +217,7 @@ static int linear_run (mddev_t *mddev)
         return 0;
 
 out:
-        if (conf)
-                kfree(conf);
+        kfree(conf);
         return 1;
 }