From 5a6b454f8024bac68495b6cd51615feb0b54baa9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 14:58:48 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] remove redundant NULL check before before kfree() in
 kernel/sysctl.c

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>
---
 kernel/sysctl.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 24a4d12d5aa9..270ee7fadbd8 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1000,8 +1000,7 @@ int do_sysctl(int __user *name, int nlen, void __user *oldval, size_t __user *ol
 		int error = parse_table(name, nlen, oldval, oldlenp, 
 					newval, newlen, head->ctl_table,
 					&context);
-		if (context)
-			kfree(context);
+		kfree(context);
 		if (error != -ENOTDIR)
 			return error;
 		tmp = tmp->next;
-- 
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