[PATCH] powerpc/iommu/debug: fix ifnullfree.cocci warnings

kernel test robot lkp at intel.com
Fri Mar 19 10:44:41 AEDT 2021


From: kernel test robot <lkp at intel.com>

arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c:76:2-16: WARNING: NULL check before some freeing functions is not needed.

 NULL check before some freeing functions is not needed.

 Based on checkpatch warning
 "kfree(NULL) is safe this check is probably not required"
 and kfreeaddr.cocci by Julia Lawall.

Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/free/ifnullfree.cocci

Fixes: 691602aab9c3 ("powerpc/iommu/debug: Add debugfs entries for IOMMU tables")
CC: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: kernel test robot <lkp at intel.com>
---

tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
head:   81aa0968b7ea6dbabcdcda37dc8434dca6e1565b
commit: 691602aab9c3cce31d3ff9529c09b7922a5f6224 powerpc/iommu/debug: Add debugfs entries for IOMMU tables

 iommu.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c
@@ -72,8 +72,7 @@ static void iommu_debugfs_del(struct iom
 
 	sprintf(name, "%08lx", tbl->it_index);
 	liobn_entry = debugfs_lookup(name, iommu_debugfs_dir);
-	if (liobn_entry)
-		debugfs_remove(liobn_entry);
+	debugfs_remove(liobn_entry);
 }
 #else
 static void iommu_debugfs_add(struct iommu_table *tbl){}


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