diff a/src/hotspot/share/jfr/recorder/stacktrace/jfrStackTraceRepository.cpp b/src/hotspot/share/jfr/recorder/stacktrace/jfrStackTraceRepository.cpp
--- a/src/hotspot/share/jfr/recorder/stacktrace/jfrStackTraceRepository.cpp
+++ b/src/hotspot/share/jfr/recorder/stacktrace/jfrStackTraceRepository.cpp
@@ -270,13 +270,11 @@
     memcpy(_frames, trace._frames, _nr_of_frames * sizeof(JfrStackFrame));
   }
 }
 
 JfrStackTraceRepository::StackTrace::~StackTrace() {
-  if (_frames != NULL) {
-    FREE_C_HEAP_ARRAY(JfrStackFrame, _frames);
-  }
+  FREE_C_HEAP_ARRAY(JfrStackFrame, _frames);
 }
 
 bool JfrStackTraceRepository::StackTrace::equals(const JfrStackTrace& rhs) const {
   if (_reached_root != rhs._reached_root || _nr_of_frames != rhs._nr_of_frames || _hash != rhs._hash) {
     return false;