Re: [BACKPORT 4.14.y 4/8] net: sctp: fix warning "NULL check before some freeing functions is not needed"

[Marcelo Ricardo Leitner]

On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 02:58:16PM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote:
> From: Hariprasad Kelam <hariprasad.kelam@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This patch removes NULL checks before calling kfree.
> 
> fixes below issues reported by coccicheck
> net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c:2586:3-8: WARNING: NULL check before some
> freeing functions is not needed.
> net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c:2652:3-8: WARNING: NULL check before some
> freeing functions is not needed.
> net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c:2667:3-8: WARNING: NULL check before some
> freeing functions is not needed.
> net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c:2684:3-8: WARNING: NULL check before some
> freeing functions is not needed.

Hi. This doesn't seem the kind of patch that should be backported to
such old/stable releases. After all, it's just a cleanup.

  Marcelo