linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] printk: remove unnecessary kmalloc() from syslog during clear

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Date:   Mon, 25 Jun 2018 15:42:39 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
cc:     Namit Gupta <gupta.namit@...sung.com>,
        sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com, rostedt@...dmis.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, pankaj.m@...sung.com,
        a.sahrawat@...sung.com, himanshu.m@...sung.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: remove unnecessary kmalloc() from syslog during
 clear

On Mon, 25 Jun 2018, Petr Mladek wrote:

> @@ -1426,7 +1428,8 @@ static int syslog_print_all(char __user *buf, int size, bool clear)
>  	}
>  	logbuf_unlock_irq();
>  
> -	kfree(text);
> +	if (text)
> +		kfree(text);

Nit: you don't need to duplicate the check kfree() is doing anyway.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs