Re: [PATCH] btrfs: fix ifnullfree.cocci warnings

From: David Sterba
Date: Thu Feb 18 2016 - 04:14:45 EST


On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 07:04:41PM +0800, kbuild test robot wrote:
> fs/btrfs/volumes.c:1886:2-7: WARNING: NULL check before freeing functions like kfree, debugfs_remove, debugfs_remove_recursive or usb_free_urb is not needed. Maybe consider reorganizing relevant code to avoid passing NULL values.
>
> NULL check before some freeing functions is not needed.
>
> Based on checkpatch warning
> "kfree(NULL) is safe this check is probably not required"
> and kfreeaddr.cocci by Julia Lawall.
>
> Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/free/ifnullfree.cocci
>
> CC: Anand Jain <anand.jain@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, applied to the respective branch.