netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Remove some pointless conditionals before kfree

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Date:	Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:47:38 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Yang Hongyang <yanghy@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	yjwei@...fujitsu.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Remove some pointless conditionals before
	kfree_skb()

Yang Hongyang <yanghy@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
> I think kfree_skb() suppose that you have handled NULL pointer 
> because it uses `unlikely` to check the pointer.
> So I don't think these conditions are pointless...
> 437 void kfree_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
> 438 {
> 439         if (unlikely(!skb))
> 440                 return;

These checks were specifically added so that callers didn't have
to check for NULL.

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