diff --git a/dlls/msvcrt/errno.c b/dlls/msvcrt/errno.c
index 46b1859a8e6..893ed7bf20c 100644
--- a/dlls/msvcrt/errno.c
+++ b/dlls/msvcrt/errno.c
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ void CDECL MSVCRT__wperror(const MSVCRT_wchar_t* str)
         }
     }
     MSVCRT_perror(buffer);
-    if (buffer) MSVCRT_free(buffer);
+    MSVCRT_free(buffer);
 }
 
 /*********************************************************************
diff --git a/dlls/msvcrt/file.c b/dlls/msvcrt/file.c
index 5a2f1e65346..432d5c7e15c 100644
--- a/dlls/msvcrt/file.c
+++ b/dlls/msvcrt/file.c
@@ -3498,8 +3498,7 @@ int CDECL MSVCRT__write(int fd, const void* buf, unsigned int count)
         if (!WriteFile(hand, q, size, &num_written, NULL))
             num_written = -1;
         release_ioinfo(info);
-        if(p)
-            MSVCRT_free(p);
+        MSVCRT_free(p);
         if (num_written != size)
         {
             TRACE("WriteFile (fd %d, hand %p) failed-last error (%d), num_written %d\n",