netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/2] net/smc: Adjustments for two function implementations

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Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2024 16:44:45 +0800
From: Tony Lu <tonylu@...ux.alibaba.com>
To: Wen Gu <guwen@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"D. Wythe" <alibuda@...ux.alibaba.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Jan Karcher <jaka@...ux.ibm.com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Wenjia Zhang <wenjia@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] net/smc: Adjustments for two function implementations

On Tue, Jan 02, 2024 at 04:13:09PM +0800, Wen Gu wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2023/12/31 22:55, Markus Elfring wrote:
> > From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> > Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2023 15:48:45 +0100
> > 
> > A few update suggestions were taken into account
> > from static source code analysis.
> > 
> > Markus Elfring (2):
> >    Return directly after a failed kzalloc() in smc_fill_gid_list()
> >    Improve exception handling in smc_llc_cli_add_link_invite()
> > 
> >   net/smc/af_smc.c  |  2 +-
> >   net/smc/smc_llc.c | 15 +++++++--------
> >   2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> > 
> > --
> > 2.43.0
> 
> Hi Markus. I see you want to fix the kfree(NULL) issues in these two patches.
> 
> But I am wondering if this is necessary, since kfree() can handle NULL correctly.

I think the key point is that there are no necessary to call kfree() if
we can avoid this in normal logic.

Tony Lu