On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 09:38:47AM +0100, Markus Elfring wrote: > From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2023 09:15:07 +0100 > > The kfree() function was called in two cases by > the virtio_fs_get_tree() function during error handling > even if the passed variable contained a null pointer. So what? kfree(NULL) is perfectly acceptable. Are you trying to optimise an error path?