Re: [PATCH] Small kfree cleanup, save a local variable.

[Michael Buesch]

Quoting Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@xxxxxx>:
> Here's a patch with a small improvement to kernel/auditsc.c .
> There's no need for the local variable  struct audit_entry *e  , 
> we can just call kfree directly on container_of() .

Did you look at the assembly output? Does it change?
I think the compiler optimizes this variable away, anyway.
So, if there's no improvement, I would personally prefer the
original form as it's more readable.

>  kernel/auditsc.c |    5 ++---
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> --- linux-2.6.12-orig/kernel/auditsc.c	2005-06-17 21:48:29.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6.12/kernel/auditsc.c	2005-06-19 21:21:37.000000000 +0200
> @@ -202,8 +202,7 @@ static inline int audit_add_rule(struct 
>  
>  static void audit_free_rule(struct rcu_head *head)
>  {
> -	struct audit_entry *e = container_of(head, struct audit_entry, rcu);
> -	kfree(e);
> +	kfree(container_of(head, struct audit_entry, rcu));
>  }

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Greetings, Michael

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