From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262739AbVCWCts (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:49:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262726AbVCWCtp (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:49:45 -0500 Received: from dsl027-180-174.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.174]:33732 "EHLO cheetah.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262723AbVCWCtj (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:49:39 -0500 Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:47:50 -0800 From: "David S. Miller" To: Jesper Juhl Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, obz@Kodak.COM, bir7@leland.Stanford.Edu, waltje@uWalt.NL.Mugnet.ORG, linux-net@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/socket.c : remove redundant NULL pointer check before kfree() Message-Id: <20050322184750.4ec7a51c.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 20:34:05 +0100 (CET) Jesper Juhl wrote: > kfree() handles NULL pointers just fine, checking first is pointless. > > Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl Applied, thanks Jesper.