linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] netfilter: Deletion of unnecessary checks before two function calls

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Message-ID: <20141120121608.GA10093@salvia>
Date:	Thu, 20 Nov 2014 13:16:08 +0100
From:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
Cc:	Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>,
	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Wensong Zhang <wensong@...ux-vs.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	lvs-devel@...r.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	coreteam@...filter.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, Coccinelle <cocci@...teme.lip6.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] netfilter: Deletion of unnecessary checks before two
 function calls

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:13:59AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 12:26:56AM +0200, Julian Anastasov wrote:
> > 
> > 	Hello,
> > 
> > On Tue, 18 Nov 2014, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> > > Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 20:37:05 +0100
> > > 
> > > The functions free_percpu() and module_put() test whether their argument
> > > is NULL and then return immediately. Thus the test around the call is
> > > not needed.
> > > 
> > > This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> > 
> > 	Pablo, the IPVS parts look ok to me,
> > 
> > Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
> 
> Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>

Applied, thanks.
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