The patch titled
Subject: vmalloc: remove redundant NULL check
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
vmalloc-remove-redundant-null-check.patch
This patch should soon appear at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/vmalloc-remove-redundant-null-check.patch
and later at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/vmalloc-remove-redundant-null-check.patch
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From: Yang Li <abaci-bugfix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: vmalloc: remove redundant NULL check
Fix below warnings reported by coccicheck:
./fs/proc/vmcore.c:1503:2-7: WARNING: NULL check before some freeing
functions is not needed.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1611216753-44598-1-git-send-email-abaci-bugfix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Yang Li <abaci-bugfix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Abaci Robot <abaci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/proc/vmcore.c | 7 ++-----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/proc/vmcore.c~vmalloc-remove-redundant-null-check
+++ a/fs/proc/vmcore.c
@@ -1503,11 +1503,8 @@ int vmcore_add_device_dump(struct vmcore
return 0;
out_err:
- if (buf)
- vfree(buf);
-
- if (dump)
- vfree(dump);
+ vfree(buf);
+ vfree(dump);
return ret;
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from abaci-bugfix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
vmalloc-remove-redundant-null-check.patch
