Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: remove null checks before kfree

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Thu Feb 24 2011 - 11:08:38 EST


On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 03:53:40AM -0500, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> This patch was created with the following semantic patch:
>
> // <smpl>
> @@
> expression E;
> @@
>
> - if (E != NULL) kfree(E);
> + kfree(E);
> // </smpl>

OK, so when will we be removing the unlikely() from the implementations
of kfree()?

if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(block)))
return;

-- Steve

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