Re: [PATCH] vmalloc: remove redundant NULL check

From: Baoquan He
Date: Thu Jan 21 2021 - 03:35:23 EST


On 01/21/21 at 04:12pm, Yang Li wrote:
> Fix below warnings reported by coccicheck:
> ./fs/proc/vmcore.c:1503:2-7: WARNING: NULL check before some freeing
> functions is not needed.
>
> Reported-by: Abaci Robot <abaci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yang Li <abaci-bugfix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/proc/vmcore.c | 7 ++-----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/proc/vmcore.c b/fs/proc/vmcore.c
> index c3a345c..9a15334 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/vmcore.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/vmcore.c
> @@ -1503,11 +1503,8 @@ int vmcore_add_device_dump(struct vmcoredd_data *data)
> return 0;
>
> out_err:
> - if (buf)
> - vfree(buf);
> -
> - if (dump)
> - vfree(dump);
> + vfree(buf);
> + vfree(dump);

Looks good, thx.

Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks
Baoquan