linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 15/15] kvfree_rcu(): Fix ifnullfree.cocci warnings

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Message-Id: <20200928233102.24265-15-paulmck@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon, 28 Sep 2020 16:31:02 -0700
From:   paulmck@...nel.org
To:     rcu@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com, mingo@...nel.org,
        jiangshanlai@...il.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
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        mgorman@...hsingularity.net, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>,
        Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...ia.fr>,
        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 15/15] kvfree_rcu(): Fix ifnullfree.cocci warnings

From: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>

NULL check before kfree is not needed.

Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/free/ifnullfree.cocci

Fixes: 9f7e887e648c ("rcu/tree: Allocate a page when caller is preemptible")
Acked-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...ia.fr>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/rcu/tree.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index cc998d7..4a85ea2 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -3165,8 +3165,7 @@ static void kfree_rcu_work(struct work_struct *work)
 				bkvhead[i] = NULL;
 			krc_this_cpu_unlock(krcp, flags);
 
-			if (bkvhead[i])
-				kfree(bkvhead[i]);
+			kfree(bkvhead[i]);
 
 			cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs();
 		}
-- 
2.9.5