You can drop the if on line 3490. julia ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2019 04:28:35 +0800 From: kbuild test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> To: kbuild@xxxxxx Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx> Subject: [staging:staging-testing 268/273] drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c:3491:2-7: WARNING: NULL check before some freeing functions is not needed. CC: kbuild-all@xxxxxx CC: devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx TO: "Valdis Kl??tnieks" <valdis.kletnieks@xxxxxx> CC: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> CC: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> tree: https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git staging-testing head: 544b3e7fd2d39b571298c64000423df21b912a3b commit: c48c9f7ff32b8b3965a08e40eb6763682d905b5d [268/273] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging :::::: branch date: 2 hours ago :::::: commit date: 4 days ago If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx> >> drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c:3491:2-7: WARNING: NULL check before some freeing functions is not needed. -- >> drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c:2699:26-33: WARNING opportunity for kmemdup git remote add staging https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git git remote update staging git checkout c48c9f7ff32b8b3965a08e40eb6763682d905b5d vim +3491 drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c c48c9f7ff32b8b Valdis Kletnieks 2019-08-28 3487 c48c9f7ff32b8b Valdis Kletnieks 2019-08-28 3488 static void exfat_destroy_inode(struct inode *inode) c48c9f7ff32b8b Valdis Kletnieks 2019-08-28 3489 { c48c9f7ff32b8b Valdis Kletnieks 2019-08-28 3490 if (EXFAT_I(inode)->target) c48c9f7ff32b8b Valdis Kletnieks 2019-08-28 @3491 kfree(EXFAT_I(inode)->target); c48c9f7ff32b8b Valdis Kletnieks 2019-08-28 3492 EXFAT_I(inode)->target = NULL; c48c9f7ff32b8b Valdis Kletnieks 2019-08-28 3493 c48c9f7ff32b8b Valdis Kletnieks 2019-08-28 3494 kmem_cache_free(exfat_inode_cachep, EXFAT_I(inode)); c48c9f7ff32b8b Valdis Kletnieks 2019-08-28 3495 } c48c9f7ff32b8b Valdis Kletnieks 2019-08-28 3496 --- 0-DAY kernel test infrastructure Open Source Technology Center https://lists.01.org/pipermail/kbuild-all Intel Corporation _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel