netdev - Re: [PATCH] wireless: remove unnecessary condition check before kfree

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Date:   Mon, 10 Sep 2018 21:54:36 +0800
From:   zhong jiang <zhongjiang@...wei.com>
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
CC:     <davem@...emloft.net>, <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wireless: remove unnecessary condition check before kfree

On 2018/9/10 15:10, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sat, 2018-09-08 at 22:12 +0800, zhong jiang wrote:
>> kfree has taken the null pointer into account. Just remove the
>> redundant condition check before kfree.
> I'm all for doing that if it actually removes conditionals, but
>
>> -	if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(regdb))
>> +	if (!IS_ERR(regdb))
>>  		kfree(regdb);
> this seems rather pointless since there's still a condition. In that
> case, I feel it's easier to understand the original code.
 Fine, make sense you have said. I just consider the duplication of function.
 
 Thanks,
 zhong jiang
> johannes
>
> .
>