linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ethernet: Delete unnecessary checks before the macro call “dev_kfree

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Message-Id: <20190822.162339.831735149510227752.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 22 Aug 2019 16:23:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethernet: Delete unnecessary checks before the macro
 call “dev_kfree_skb”

From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 20:30:15 +0200

> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 20:02:56 +0200
> 
> The dev_kfree_skb() function performs also input parameter validation.
> Thus the test around the shown calls is not needed.
> 
> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>

Applied.