linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vmalloc: remove redundant NULL check

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Message-ID: <20210121082356.GH20161@MiWiFi-R3L-srv>
Date:   Thu, 21 Jan 2021 16:23:56 +0800
From:   Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To:     Yang Li <abaci-bugfix@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc:     dyoung@...hat.com, vgoyal@...hat.com, adobriyan@...il.com,
        kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vmalloc: remove redundant NULL check

On 01/21/21 at 04:12pm, Yang Li wrote:
> Fix below warnings reported by coccicheck:
> ./fs/proc/vmcore.c:1503:2-7: WARNING: NULL check before some freeing
> functions is not needed.
> 
> Reported-by: Abaci Robot <abaci@...ux.alibaba.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yang Li <abaci-bugfix@...ux.alibaba.com>
> ---
>  fs/proc/vmcore.c | 7 ++-----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/proc/vmcore.c b/fs/proc/vmcore.c
> index c3a345c..9a15334 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/vmcore.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/vmcore.c
> @@ -1503,11 +1503,8 @@ int vmcore_add_device_dump(struct vmcoredd_data *data)
>  	return 0;
>  
>  out_err:
> -	if (buf)
> -		vfree(buf);
> -
> -	if (dump)
> -		vfree(dump);
> +	vfree(buf);
> +	vfree(dump);

Looks good, thx.

Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>

Thanks
Baoquan