Hi Tom, On Sun, 2022-01-16 at 06:43 -0800, trix@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > From: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx> > > nfs42_files_from_same_server() is called to check if freeing > cn_resp is required. Instead of calling a function, check > the pointer. > > Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > fs/nfs/nfs4file.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4file.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4file.c > index e79ae4cbc395e..677631ea4cfb3 100644 > --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4file.c > +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4file.c > @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ static ssize_t __nfs4_copy_file_range(struct file > *file_in, loff_t pos_in, > ret = nfs42_proc_copy(file_in, pos_in, file_out, pos_out, > count, > nss, cnrs, sync); > out: > - if (!nfs42_files_from_same_server(file_in, file_out)) > + if (cn_resp) > kfree(cn_resp); The kernel convention in these circumstances is to just skip the NULL pointer check, since kfree() does that anyway. > if (ret == -EAGAIN) > goto retry; -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer, Hammerspace trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx