diff --git a/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog b/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
index b29e0618f358881a8d1575e9f6e73e3b37a9e7c9..51428bfce952c3f98a9fbbf30a332a1def0d2583 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
+++ b/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
@@ -103,6 +103,8 @@ ToDo/Notes:
 	- Modify ->readpage and ->writepage (fs/ntfs/aops.c) so they detect and
 	  handle the case where an attribute is converted from resident to
 	  non-resident by a concurrent file write.
+	- Remove checks for NULL before calling kfree() since kfree() does the
+	  checking itself.  (Jesper Juhl)
 
 2.1.22 - Many bug and race fixes and error handling improvements.
 
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/dir.c b/fs/ntfs/dir.c
index 95c44577160c46ed9629b337a6da5921da9f4734..a56ca1821eed9bbf9fcdf3b4a2e4a34df489dbaf 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/dir.c
@@ -183,8 +183,7 @@ MFT_REF ntfs_lookup_inode_by_name(ntfs_inode *dir_ni, const ntfschar *uname,
 				name->len = 0;
 				*res = name;
 			} else {
-				if (name)
-					kfree(name);
+				kfree(name);
 				*res = NULL;
 			}
 			mref = le64_to_cpu(ie->data.dir.indexed_file);
@@ -444,8 +443,7 @@ MFT_REF ntfs_lookup_inode_by_name(ntfs_inode *dir_ni, const ntfschar *uname,
 				name->len = 0;
 				*res = name;
 			} else {
-				if (name)
-					kfree(name);
+				kfree(name);
 				*res = NULL;
 			}
 			mref = le64_to_cpu(ie->data.dir.indexed_file);
@@ -1462,10 +1460,8 @@ static int ntfs_readdir(struct file *filp, void *dirent, filldir_t filldir)
 		unlock_page(ia_page);
 		ntfs_unmap_page(ia_page);
 	}
-	if (ir)
-		kfree(ir);
-	if (name)
-		kfree(name);
+	kfree(ir);
+	kfree(name);
 	if (ctx)
 		ntfs_attr_put_search_ctx(ctx);
 	if (m)
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/namei.c b/fs/ntfs/namei.c
index d261e25bd9ba813f5092625d82fe9b009da71b46..351dbc3b6e404bfc36bcbd0735069acc6b4fea24 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/namei.c
@@ -153,8 +153,7 @@ static struct dentry *ntfs_lookup(struct inode *dir_ino, struct dentry *dent,
 			ntfs_error(vol->sb, "ntfs_iget(0x%lx) failed with "
 					"error code %li.", dent_ino,
 					PTR_ERR(dent_inode));
-		if (name)
-			kfree(name);
+		kfree(name);
 		/* Return the error code. */
 		return (struct dentry *)dent_inode;
 	}
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/super.c b/fs/ntfs/super.c
index 78416eb2a168092d20499c2e535b2a328e9a4bb7..25fa1d1668da1dba28a2a31616cf8c4e51af0fd2 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/super.c
@@ -1193,8 +1193,7 @@ static BOOL load_and_init_quota(ntfs_volume *vol)
 		return FALSE;
 	}
 	/* We do not care for the type of match that was found. */
-	if (name)
-		kfree(name);
+	kfree(name);
 	/* Get the inode. */
 	tmp_ino = ntfs_iget(vol->sb, MREF(mref));
 	if (IS_ERR(tmp_ino) || is_bad_inode(tmp_ino)) {