The patch titled Remove redundant NULL checks before [kv]free - in kernel/ has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is remove-redundant-null-checks-before-free-in-kernel.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this From: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> Remove redundant kfree NULL checks from kernel/ Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- kernel/auditsc.c | 6 ++---- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/auditsc.c~remove-redundant-null-checks-before-free-in-kernel kernel/auditsc.c --- devel/kernel/auditsc.c~remove-redundant-null-checks-before-free-in-kernel 2006-04-17 21:28:16.000000000 -0700 +++ devel-akpm/kernel/auditsc.c 2006-04-17 21:28:16.000000000 -0700 @@ -530,8 +530,7 @@ static void audit_log_task_context(struc return; error_path: - if (ctx) - kfree(ctx); + kfree(ctx); audit_panic("error in audit_log_task_context"); return; } @@ -965,8 +964,7 @@ void audit_inode_context(int idx, const goto ret; error_path: - if (ctx) - kfree(ctx); + kfree(ctx); audit_panic("error in audit_inode_context"); ret: return; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx are git-mtd.patch small-whitespace-cleanup-for-qlogic-driver.patch reduce-nr-of-ptr-derefs-in-fs-jffs2-summaryc.patch voyager-no-need-to-define-bits_per_byte-when-its-already-in-typesh.patch fix-potential-null-pointer-deref-in-gen_init_cpio.patch debug-shared-irqs.patch remove-redundant-null-checks-before-free-in-fs.patch remove-redundant-null-checks-before-free-in-net.patch remove-redundant-null-checks-before-free-in-arch.patch remove-redundant-null-checks-before-free-in-kernel.patch remove-redundant-null-checks-before-free-in-drivers.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html