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authorSergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>2017-12-31 21:41:36 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-01-03 10:21:35 -0500
commit4282fc47c01262fdda55a9d63a4e25173fd9afb4 (patch)
treeaf2fd522bbc6d9d22f7d34de40fdd1efeca5473c
parentravb: kill redundant check in the probe() method (diff)
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sh_eth: kill redundant check in the probe() method
Browsing thru the driver disassembly, I noticed that gcc was able to figure out that the 'ndev' pointer is always non-NULL when calling free_netdev() on the probe() method's error path and thus skip that redundant NULL check... gcc is smart, be like gcc! :-) Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com> Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c
index 75323000c364..d47bbbb22e7c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c
@@ -3282,8 +3282,7 @@ out_napi_del:
out_release:
/* net_dev free */
- if (ndev)
- free_netdev(ndev);
+ free_netdev(ndev);
pm_runtime_put(&pdev->dev);
pm_runtime_disable(&pdev->dev);