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From 9ef47f4fa90319e6b33d0ead11ec4e7da4ad8998 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 21:41:36 +0300
Subject: [PATCH 0476/1795] 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>
(cherry picked from commit 4282fc47c01262fdda55a9d63a4e25173fd9afb4)
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c
index 007f54b5766b..d7216bcace03 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c
@@ -3278,8 +3278,7 @@ static int sh_eth_drv_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
out_release:
/* net_dev free */
- if (ndev)
- free_netdev(ndev);
+ free_netdev(ndev);
pm_runtime_put(&pdev->dev);
pm_runtime_disable(&pdev->dev);
--
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