linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pohmelfs: remove unneeded conditionals before calls to crypto_destroy

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Message-ID: <20101105120832.GA6503@ioremap.net>
Date:	Fri, 5 Nov 2010 15:08:32 +0300
From:	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>
To:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Ruslan Pisarev <ruslan@...sarev.org.ua>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pohmelfs: remove unneeded conditionals before calls to crypto_destroy_tfm wrappers.

Hi Jesper.

On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 10:27:42PM +0100, Jesper Juhl (jj@...osbits.net) wrote:
> crypto_free_hash() and crypto_free_ablkcipher() are just wrappers around 
> crypto_free_tfm() which is itself just a wrapper around 
> crypto_destroy_tfm().
> Passing crypto_destroy_tfm() a NULL pointer is valid, so there's no reason 
> to check for NULL first.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>

Patch looks good, thank you.
Greg please apply it to your tree, ack.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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