linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] crypto: cavium: remove redundant null pointer check before kfree

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Message-ID: <20180928050958.gpbgh7r2canffij6@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:   Fri, 28 Sep 2018 13:09:58 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     zhong jiang <zhongjiang@...wei.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, george.cherian@...ium.com,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: cavium: remove redundant null pointer check
 before kfree

On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 09:30:15PM +0800, zhong jiang wrote:
> kfree has taken the null pointer into account. hence it is safe
> to remove the redundant null pointer check before kfree.
> 
> Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@...wei.com>

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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