netdev - Re: [PATCH] net-ipvs: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "module

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Message-ID: <20150709014102.GB14843@verge.net.au>
Date:	Thu, 9 Jul 2015 10:41:02 +0900
From:	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
To:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu>,
	Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>,
	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Wensong Zhang <wensong@...ux-vs.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	lvs-devel@...r.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	coreteam@...filter.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org" <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net-ipvs: Delete an unnecessary check before the
 function call "module_put"

On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 05:10:41PM +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 17:00:14 +0200
> 
> The module_put() function tests whether its argument is NULL and then
> returns immediately. Thus the test around the call is not needed.
> 
> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Thanks, applied to ipvs-next for v4.3.
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