Re: [PATCH 1/1] kprobes: Deletion of an unnecessary check before the function call "module_put"

From: SF Markus Elfring
Date: Wed Nov 19 2014 - 02:09:08 EST


>> index 3995f54..f1e7d45 100644
>> --- a/kernel/kprobes.c
>> +++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
>> @@ -1527,8 +1527,7 @@ int register_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
>> out:
>> mutex_unlock(&kprobe_mutex);
>>
>> - if (probed_mod)
>> - module_put(probed_mod);
>> + module_put(probed_mod);
>
> This is OK, but I you request a comment line over there so that
> code reader can understand it is safe to pass a NULL pointer to
> module_put().

Do you want that I replace the shown null pointer check by a short
comment which repeats an expectation for the affected function call?

Regards,
Markus

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