linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: vmpressure: don't need call kfree if kstrndup fails

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Date:   Tue, 11 Feb 2020 18:07:43 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:     Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: vmpressure: don't need call kfree if kstrndup
 fails

On Tue, 11 Feb 2020, Yang Shi wrote:

> When kstrndup fails (returns NULL) there is no memory is allocated by
> kmalloc, so no need to call kfree().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>