linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Remove some pointless conditionals before kfree() in kernel/cgroup.c

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Date:	Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:12:51 -0800
From:	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
To:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>, Simon Derr <simon.derr@...l.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove some pointless conditionals before kfree() in 
	kernel/cgroup.c

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here's a small patch for kernel/cgroup.c
>
> Removes a few pointless tests of pointer == 0 before kfree() in
> kernel/cgroup.c.
> If the pointer we hand to kfree() is 0, then kfree() is a noop, so there
> is no need to test.
>
> Reduces object file size a bit :
>
> Before:
> $ size kernel/cgroup.o
>   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>  21593    7804    4924   34321    8611 kernel/cgroup.o
> After:
> $ size kernel/cgroup.o
>   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>  21537    7744    4924   34205    859d kernel/cgroup.o

Thanks. I'm a bit surprised that it also shrunk the data segment size
(and in fact, by more than the text segment size). Any idea how that
came about?

>
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>

Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>

Paul

> ---
>
> diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
> index 9edb5c4..1c0a9b5 100644
> --- a/kernel/cgroup.c
> +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
> @@ -865,8 +865,7 @@ static int cgroup_remount(struct super_block *sb, int *flags, char *data)
>        if (opts.release_agent)
>                strcpy(root->release_agent_path, opts.release_agent);
>  out_unlock:
> -       if (opts.release_agent)
> -               kfree(opts.release_agent);
> +       kfree(opts.release_agent);
>        mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
>        mutex_unlock(&cgrp->dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
>        return ret;
> @@ -969,15 +968,13 @@ static int cgroup_get_sb(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
>        /* First find the desired set of subsystems */
>        ret = parse_cgroupfs_options(data, &opts);
>        if (ret) {
> -               if (opts.release_agent)
> -                       kfree(opts.release_agent);
> +               kfree(opts.release_agent);
>                return ret;
>        }
>
>        root = kzalloc(sizeof(*root), GFP_KERNEL);
>        if (!root) {
> -               if (opts.release_agent)
> -                       kfree(opts.release_agent);
> +               kfree(opts.release_agent);
>                return -ENOMEM;
>        }
>
>
>
> --
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