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Message-ID: <1507203141-11959-1-git-send-email-miles.chen@mediatek.com>
Date:   Thu, 5 Oct 2017 19:32:21 +0800
From:   <miles.chen@...iatek.com>
To:     Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:     <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        <wsd_upstream@...iatek.com>, <linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Miles Chen <miles.chen@...iatek.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mm/slob: remove an unnecessary check for __GFP_ZERO

From: Miles Chen <miles.chen@...iatek.com>

Current flow guarantees a valid pointer when handling
the __GFP_ZERO case. So remove the unnecessary NULL pointer
check.

Signed-off-by: Miles Chen <miles.chen@...iatek.com>
---
 mm/slob.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/slob.c b/mm/slob.c
index a8bd6fa..a72649c 100644
--- a/mm/slob.c
+++ b/mm/slob.c
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ static void *slob_alloc(size_t size, gfp_t gfp, int align, int node)
 		BUG_ON(!b);
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&slob_lock, flags);
 	}
-	if (unlikely((gfp & __GFP_ZERO) && b))
+	if (unlikely(gfp & __GFP_ZERO))
 		memset(b, 0, size);
 	return b;
 }
-- 
1.9.1

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