linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] netlink: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "module

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Message-Id: <20150703.092819.95179652477512417.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 03 Jul 2015 09:28:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, julia.lawall@...6.fr
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netlink: Delete an unnecessary check before the
 function call "module_put"

From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2015 18:45:53 +0200

> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 18:38:12 +0200
> 
> The module_put() 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>

Applied.
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