From 5e150dc65d87bc533255408185dbdbc018058289 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mohammad Shahid Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2026 23:03:01 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] ntfs: reparse: remove redundant NULL checks before kvfree() kvfree() safely handles NULL pointers, so the explicit NULL checks before calling kvfree() are unnecessary. This issue was reported by ifnullfree.cocci. Signed-off-by: Mohammad Shahid Reviewed-by: Hyunchul Lee Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon --- fs/ntfs/reparse.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ntfs/reparse.c b/fs/ntfs/reparse.c index fa523dc3691e..ced4c675d91f 100644 --- a/fs/ntfs/reparse.c +++ b/fs/ntfs/reparse.c @@ -317,8 +317,7 @@ unsigned int ntfs_make_symlink(struct ntfs_inode *ni) } else ni->flags &= ~FILE_ATTR_REPARSE_POINT; - if (reparse_attr) - kvfree(reparse_attr); + kvfree(reparse_attr); return mode; } @@ -358,8 +357,7 @@ unsigned int ntfs_reparse_tag_dt_types(struct ntfs_volume *vol, unsigned long mr } } - if (reparse_attr) - kvfree(reparse_attr); + kvfree(reparse_attr); iput(vi); return dt_type;