linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH/Trivial] jffs2: Avoid unneeded 'if' before kfree

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Message-ID: <1308720921.18119.33.camel@sauron>
Date:	Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:35:17 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
To:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, trivial@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/Trivial] jffs2: Avoid unneeded 'if' before kfree

On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 22:16 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> kfree() deals gracefully with NULL pointers, so it's pointless to test for 
> one prior to calling it.
> This removes such a test from jffs2_scan_medium().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>

Pushed to l2-mtd-2.6.git, thanks!

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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