The patch titled Subject: mm/swap_slots.c: remove redundant NULL check has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-swap_slotsc-remove-redundant-null-check.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-swap_slotsc-remove-redundant-null-check.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-swap_slotsc-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/swap_slots.c: remove redundant NULL check Fix below warnings reported by coccicheck: ./mm/swap_slots.c:197:3-9: WARNING: NULL check before some freeing functions is not needed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1611214229-11225-1-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/swap_slots.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/mm/swap_slots.c~mm-swap_slotsc-remove-redundant-null-check +++ a/mm/swap_slots.c @@ -193,8 +193,7 @@ static void drain_slots_cache_cpu(unsign cache->slots_ret = NULL; } spin_unlock_irq(&cache->free_lock); - if (slots) - kvfree(slots); + kvfree(slots); } } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from abaci-bugfix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-swap_slotsc-remove-redundant-null-check.patch mm-memcontrol-remove-redundant-null-check.patch vmalloc-remove-redundant-null-check.patch