linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: remove null checks before kfree

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Date:	Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:08:29 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@...m.mit.edu>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: remove null checks before kfree

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 03:53:40AM -0500, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> This patch was created with the following semantic patch:
> 
> // <smpl>
> @@
> expression E;
> @@
> 
> - if (E != NULL) kfree(E);
> + kfree(E);
> // </smpl>

OK, so when will we be removing the unlikely() from the implementations
of kfree()?

	if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(block)))
			return;

-- Steve

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