linux-kernel - [PATCH] slab: drop unneeded NULL-pointer check in kfree auto cleanup

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Date:   Tue, 12 Sep 2023 10:26:43 +0200
From:   Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
To:     Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>,
        Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@...il.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
Subject: [PATCH] slab: drop unneeded NULL-pointer check in kfree auto cleanup

From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>

kfree() already accepts and silently ignores NULL-pointers, there's no
need to check it when running the auto cleanup routine.

Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
---
 include/linux/slab.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index 8228d1276a2f..fb709ed506ba 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ void kfree(const void *objp);
 void kfree_sensitive(const void *objp);
 size_t __ksize(const void *objp);
 
-DEFINE_FREE(kfree, void *, if (_T) kfree(_T))
+DEFINE_FREE(kfree, void *, kfree(_T))
 
 /**
  * ksize - Report actual allocation size of associated object
-- 
2.39.2