Re: [PATCH] crypto_free_tfm callers do not need to check for NULL

From: Sridhar Samudrala
Date: Tue Aug 30 2005 - 16:15:59 EST


On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 22:45 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> Since the patch to add a NULL short-circuit to crypto_free_tfm() went in,
> there's no longer any need for callers of that function to check for NULL.
> This patch removes the redundant NULL checks and also a few similar checks
> for NULL before calls to kfree() that I ran into while doing the
> crypto_free_tfm bits.
>
> I've posted similar patches in the past, but was asked to first until the
> short-circuit patch moved from -mm to mainline - and since it is now
> firmly there in 2.6.13 I assume there's no problem there anymore.
> I was also asked previously to make the patch against mainline and not -mm,
> so this patch is against 2.6.13.
>
> Feedback, ACK, NACK, etc welcome.

sctp change looks fine.
A similar check in sctp_endpoint_destroy() can also be removed.

Thanks
Sridhar

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