linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] trace event skb remove duplicate null-pointer check

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Message-ID: <20110106181726.GF2308@nowhere>
Date:	Thu, 6 Jan 2011 19:17:29 +0100
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com, rostedt@...dmis.org,
	nhorman@...driver.com, zhaolei@...fujitsu.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] trace event skb remove duplicate null-pointer check

On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 10:15:44AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 12:53:19 -0500
> 
> > The check for NULL skb in the kfree_skb trace event is a duplicate from the
> > check already done in its only caller, kfree_skb(). Remove this duplicate check.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
> > Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
> 
> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>

May be you want to take that on the net tree? Looks like more appropriate.
Of course this can go through the tracing tree as well.

Thanks.
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