The patch titled
Subject: drivers/video/console/softcursor.c: remove redundant NULL check before kfree()
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
drivers-video-console-softcursorc-remove-redundant-null-check-before-kfree.patch
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From: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: drivers/video/console/softcursor.c: remove redundant NULL check before kfree()
Signed-off-by: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/video/console/softcursor.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN drivers/video/console/softcursor.c~drivers-video-console-softcursorc-remove-redundant-null-check-before-kfree drivers/video/console/softcursor.c
--- a/drivers/video/console/softcursor.c~drivers-video-console-softcursorc-remove-redundant-null-check-before-kfree
+++ a/drivers/video/console/softcursor.c
@@ -35,8 +35,7 @@ int soft_cursor(struct fb_info *info, st
dsize = s_pitch * cursor->image.height;
if (dsize + sizeof(struct fb_image) != ops->cursor_size) {
- if (ops->cursor_src != NULL)
- kfree(ops->cursor_src);
+ kfree(ops->cursor_src);
ops->cursor_size = dsize + sizeof(struct fb_image);
ops->cursor_src = kmalloc(ops->cursor_size, GFP_ATOMIC);
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from sachin.kamat@xxxxxxxxxx are
linux-next.patch
drivers-video-console-softcursorc-remove-redundant-null-check-before-kfree.patch
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