From: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/slub.c: page is always non-NULL in node_match() node_match() is a static function and is only invoked in slub.c. In all three places, `page' is ensured to be valid. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181106150245.1668-1-richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- a/mm/slub.c~mm-slub-page-is-always-non-null-for-node_match +++ a/mm/slub.c @@ -2369,7 +2369,7 @@ static int slub_cpu_dead(unsigned int cp static inline int node_match(struct page *page, int node) { #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA - if (!page || (node != NUMA_NO_NODE && page_to_nid(page) != node)) + if (node != NUMA_NO_NODE && page_to_nid(page) != node) return 0; #endif return 1; _