From 4c432a8f0134504814aa8dcce6cc57c89d175604 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:29:04 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: usb_free_urb() can take NULL

usb_free_urb() can take a NULL, so let's check and warn about that.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 13d7a330b5dd..a4e8087a0cae 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2078,6 +2078,13 @@ sub process {
 				WARN("kfree(NULL) is safe this check is probabally not required\n" . $hereprev);
 			}
 		}
+# check for needless usb_free_urb() checks
+		if ($prevline =~ /\bif\s*\(([^\)]*)\)/) {
+			my $expr = $1;
+			if ($line =~ /\busb_free_urb\(\Q$expr\E\);/) {
+				WARN("usb_free_urb(NULL) is safe this check is probably not required\n" . $hereprev);
+			}
+		}
 
 # warn about #ifdefs in C files
 #		if ($line =~ /^.\s*\#\s*if(|n)def/ && ($realfile =~ /\.c$/)) {