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Message-ID: <55F6D86B.3000304@bfs.de>
Date:	Mon, 14 Sep 2015 16:23:39 +0200
From:	walter harms <wharms@....de>
To:	Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>
CC:	device-mapper development <dm-devel@...hat.com>,
	Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.com>,
	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org,
	sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH 12/39] dm: drop null test before destroy functions



Am 14.09.2015 15:46, schrieb Mikulas Patocka:
> 
> On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Julia Lawall wrote:
> 
>> > Remove unneeded NULL test.
>> > 
>> > The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
>> > (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
>> > 
>> > // <smpl>
>> > @@ expression x; @@
>> > -if (x != NULL)
>> >   \(kmem_cache_destroy\|mempool_destroy\|dma_pool_destroy\)(x);
>> > // </smpl>
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
>> > 
>> > ---
>> >  drivers/md/dm-bufio.c              |    3 +--
>> >  drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c       |    3 +--
>> >  drivers/md/dm-crypt.c              |    6 ++----
>> >  drivers/md/dm-io.c                 |    3 +--
>> >  drivers/md/dm-log-userspace-base.c |    3 +--
>> >  drivers/md/dm-region-hash.c        |    4 +---
>> >  drivers/md/dm.c                    |   13 ++++---------
>> >  7 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
>> > 
>> > diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
>> > index 83cc52e..8ad39b6 100644
>> > --- a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
>> > +++ b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
>> > @@ -1864,8 +1864,7 @@ static void __exit dm_bufio_exit(void)
>> >  	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(dm_bufio_caches); i++) {
>> >  		struct kmem_cache *kc = dm_bufio_caches[i];
>> >  
>> > -		if (kc)
>> > -			kmem_cache_destroy(kc);
>> > +		kmem_cache_destroy(kc);
>> >  	}


maybe you want to remove "kc" also
by calling kmem_cache_destroy(dm_bufio_caches[i]); directly ?

just a hint,
 wh



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