netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 02/13] driver: net: remove unnecessary skb NULL check before calling dev_kfree_skb

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Message-ID: <1384803431.17916.31.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net>
Date:	Mon, 18 Nov 2013 20:37:11 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Govindarajulu Varadarajan <govindarajulu90@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 02/13] driver: net: remove unnecessary skb NULL
 check before calling dev_kfree_skb_irq

Please don't top-post. You're making a lot of obvious mistakes, to the
likely effect that soon enough people won't even read your email.

> Did you have a chance to look at this? Let me know how you want me to
> fix this.

By not "fixing" anything?

> >> Is is quite unlikely thats skb is NULL. So it comes down to one extra
> >> if-branching statement or one extra assignment. I would prefer extra
> >> assignment to branching statement. In my opinion extra assignment is
> >> very little price we pay.
> >> 
> >> //govind
> >
> > Another way to solve the double NULL check is to define a new function
> > something like this
> >
> > dev_kfree_skb_NULL(struct sk_buff **skb)
> > {
> >       if(*skb) {
> >               free_skb(*skb);
> >               *skb=NULL;
> >       }
> > }
> >
> > and use this if you want to free a skb and make it NULL.
> > Is this approach better?

That's just ugly imho. Why do you want to "clean up" something that
doesn't need changing?

Anyway, just saying.

johannes

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