Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 09/15] kobject: Drop unneeded conditional in __kobject_del()

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 09:05:20AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 07ecc6693f9157cf293da5d165c73fb28fd69bf4 ]
> 
> __kobject_del() is called from two places, in one where kobj is dereferenced
> before and thus can't be NULL, and in the other the NULL check is done before
> call. Drop unneeded conditional in __kobject_del().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200803083520.5460-1-andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  lib/kobject.c | 3 ---
>  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
> index bbbb067de8ecd..e02f1bb67c99f 100644
> --- a/lib/kobject.c
> +++ b/lib/kobject.c
> @@ -568,9 +568,6 @@ void kobject_del(struct kobject *kobj)
>  {
>  	struct kernfs_node *sd;
>  
> -	if (!kobj)
> -		return;
> -
>  	sd = kobj->sd;
>  	sysfs_remove_dir(kobj);
>  	sysfs_put(sd);
> -- 
> 2.25.1
> 

Ouch, no, this patch should not be backported ANYWHERE or bad things
will happen.

Please drop from all AUTOSEL trees.

thanks,

greg k-h