The patch titled Subject: mm/memcontrol: remove redundant NULL check has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-memcontrol-remove-redundant-null-check.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-memcontrol-remove-redundant-null-check.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-memcontrol-remove-redundant-null-check.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Yang Li <abaci-bugfix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/memcontrol: remove redundant NULL check Fix below warnings reported by coccicheck: ./mm/memcontrol.c:451:3-9: WARNING: NULL check before some freeing functions is not needed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1611216029-34397-1-git-send-email-abaci-bugfix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Yang Li <abaci-bugfix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Abaci Robot <abaci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/mm/memcontrol.c~mm-memcontrol-remove-redundant-null-check +++ a/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -452,8 +452,7 @@ static void memcg_free_shrinker_maps(str for_each_node(nid) { pn = mem_cgroup_nodeinfo(memcg, nid); map = rcu_dereference_protected(pn->shrinker_map, true); - if (map) - kvfree(map); + kvfree(map); rcu_assign_pointer(pn->shrinker_map, NULL); } } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from abaci-bugfix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-memcontrol-remove-redundant-null-check.patch vmalloc-remove-redundant-null-check.patch