diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index ca30ce3e1375..e7174cf2ee88 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 5a6b454f8024bac68495b6cd51615feb0b54baa9
+refs/heads/master: 4ae6673e029d609da7ef4311440d6de501d6967a
diff --git a/trunk/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k7.c b/trunk/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k7.c
index 5c530064eb74..73a5dc5b26b8 100644
--- a/trunk/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k7.c
+++ b/trunk/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k7.c
@@ -648,9 +648,7 @@ static int powernow_cpu_exit (struct cpufreq_policy *policy) {
 	}
 #endif
 
-	if (powernow_table)
-		kfree(powernow_table);
-
+	kfree(powernow_table);
 	return 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/trunk/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c b/trunk/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c
index f468a979e9aa..64d91f73a0a4 100644
--- a/trunk/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c
+++ b/trunk/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c
@@ -70,8 +70,7 @@ void __init get_mtrr_state(void)
 /*  Free resources associated with a struct mtrr_state  */
 void __init finalize_mtrr_state(void)
 {
-	if (mtrr_state.var_ranges)
-		kfree(mtrr_state.var_ranges);
+	kfree(mtrr_state.var_ranges);
 	mtrr_state.var_ranges = NULL;
 }
 
diff --git a/trunk/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c b/trunk/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c
index fc81c8cddd22..060c4ca4d69f 100644
--- a/trunk/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c
+++ b/trunk/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c
@@ -632,10 +632,8 @@ static int __init balanced_irq_init(void)
 		printk(KERN_ERR "balanced_irq_init: failed to spawn balanced_irq");
 failed:
 	for (i = 0; i < NR_CPUS; i++) {
-		if(irq_cpu_data[i].irq_delta)
-			kfree(irq_cpu_data[i].irq_delta);
-		if(irq_cpu_data[i].last_irq)
-			kfree(irq_cpu_data[i].last_irq);
+		kfree(irq_cpu_data[i].irq_delta);
+		kfree(irq_cpu_data[i].last_irq);
 	}
 	return 0;
 }