driver core: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "put_device"

The put_device() function tests whether its argument is NULL and then
returns immediately. Thus the test around the call is not needed.

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 07304a3b9ee2872d85526cba24eabd422997aa7e..e0998b6b6c4938f0ef8e93b84e6507b8e3c61752 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -1095,8 +1095,7 @@ done:
        kobject_del(&dev->kobj);
  Error:
        cleanup_device_parent(dev);
-       if (parent)
-               put_device(parent);
+       put_device(parent);
 name_error:
        kfree(dev->p);
        dev->p = NULL;