netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/netfilter: simplify error handling

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Message-ID: <4939472E.7060804@trash.net>
Date:	Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:22:22 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
CC:	davem@...emloft.net, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, pekkas@...core.fi,
	jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/netfilter: simplify error handling

Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
> 
> nf_conntrack_alloc cannot return NULL, so there is no need to check for
> NULL before using the value.  I have also removed the initialization of ct
> to NULL in nf_conntrack_alloc, since the value is never used, and since
> perhaps it might lead one to think that return ct at the end might return
> NULL.

Applied, thanks.

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