From: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: vmpressure: don't need call kfree if kstrndup fails When kstrndup fails, no memory was allocated and we can exit directly. [david@xxxxxxxxxx: reword changelog] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1581398649-125989-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmpressure.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/mm/vmpressure.c~mm-vmpressure-dont-need-call-kfree-if-kstrndup-fails +++ a/mm/vmpressure.c @@ -371,10 +371,8 @@ int vmpressure_register_event(struct mem int ret = 0; spec_orig = spec = kstrndup(args, MAX_VMPRESSURE_ARGS_LEN, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!spec) { - ret = -ENOMEM; - goto out; - } + if (!spec) + return -ENOMEM; /* Find required level */ token = strsep(&spec, ","); _