linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] jbd2: remove the conditional test

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Date:   Sun, 20 May 2018 22:41:09 -0400
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Wang Long <wanglong19@...tuan.com>
Cc:     darrick.wong@...cle.com, jack@...e.com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] jbd2: remove the conditional test

On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 10:24:39PM +0800, Wang Long wrote:
> kmem_cache_destroy already handles null pointers, so we can remove the
> conditional test entirely.
> 
> This patch also set NULL after the kmem_cache_destroy in function
> jbd2_journal_destroy_handle_cache.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wang Long <wanglong19@...tuan.com>

Thanks; I clarified the patch summary to be:

    jbd2: remove NULL check before calling kmem_cache_destroy()

and have applied it.  Apologies for not getting to this earlier.

    	 	      		    - Ted