The patch titled Subject: ocfs2: clean up redundant NULL checks before kfree has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was ocfs2-clean-up-redundant-null-checks-before-kfree.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: ocfs2: clean up redundant NULL checks before kfree NULL check before kfree is redundant and so clean them up. Signed-off-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ocfs2/alloc.c | 2 +- fs/ocfs2/suballoc.c | 6 ++---- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/ocfs2/alloc.c~ocfs2-clean-up-redundant-null-checks-before-kfree fs/ocfs2/alloc.c --- a/fs/ocfs2/alloc.c~ocfs2-clean-up-redundant-null-checks-before-kfree +++ a/fs/ocfs2/alloc.c @@ -6178,7 +6178,7 @@ bail: iput(tl_inode); brelse(tl_bh); - if (status < 0 && (*tl_copy)) { + if (status < 0) { kfree(*tl_copy); *tl_copy = NULL; mlog_errno(status); diff -puN fs/ocfs2/suballoc.c~ocfs2-clean-up-redundant-null-checks-before-kfree fs/ocfs2/suballoc.c --- a/fs/ocfs2/suballoc.c~ocfs2-clean-up-redundant-null-checks-before-kfree +++ a/fs/ocfs2/suballoc.c @@ -149,10 +149,8 @@ void ocfs2_free_ac_resource(struct ocfs2 brelse(ac->ac_bh); ac->ac_bh = NULL; ac->ac_resv = NULL; - if (ac->ac_find_loc_priv) { - kfree(ac->ac_find_loc_priv); - ac->ac_find_loc_priv = NULL; - } + kfree(ac->ac_find_loc_priv); + ac->ac_find_loc_priv = NULL; } void ocfs2_free_alloc_context(struct ocfs2_alloc_context *ac) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxx are -- 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