netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: sctp: fix warning "NULL check before some freeing functions is not needed"

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Date:   Wed, 17 Jul 2019 12:01:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     hariprasad.kelam@...il.com
Cc:     vyasevich@...il.com, nhorman@...driver.com,
        marcelo.leitner@...il.com, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: sctp: fix warning "NULL check before some freeing
 functions is not needed"

From: Hariprasad Kelam <hariprasad.kelam@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 07:50:02 +0530

> This patch removes NULL checks before calling kfree.
> 
> fixes below issues reported by coccicheck
> net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c:2586:3-8: WARNING: NULL check before some
> freeing functions is not needed.
> net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c:2652:3-8: WARNING: NULL check before some
> freeing functions is not needed.
> net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c:2667:3-8: WARNING: NULL check before some
> freeing functions is not needed.
> net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c:2684:3-8: WARNING: NULL check before some
> freeing functions is not needed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Kelam <hariprasad.kelam@...il.com>

Applied.