linux-kernel - Re: [1/1] fs-ext4: Deletion of an unnecessary check before the function call "iput"

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Message-ID: <20141126011623.GA20977@thunk.org>
Date:	Tue, 25 Nov 2014 20:16:23 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, trivial@...nel.org,
	Coccinelle <cocci@...teme.lip6.fr>
Subject: Re: [1/1] fs-ext4: Deletion of an unnecessary check before the
 function call "iput"

On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 07:19:36PM +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 19:04:06 +0100
> 
> The iput() function tests whether its argument is NULL and then
> returns 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>

Thanks, applied.

						- Ted
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