Re: [PATCH] mm/memcontrol: remove redundant NULL check

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Tue Feb 02 2021 - 05:13:56 EST


On 21.01.21 09:00, Yang Li wrote:
Fix below warnings reported by coccicheck:
./mm/memcontrol.c:451:3-9: WARNING: NULL check before some freeing
functions is not needed.

Reported-by: Abaci Robot <abaci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yang Li <abaci-bugfix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 605f671..f6a561b 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -447,8 +447,7 @@ static void memcg_free_shrinker_maps(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
for_each_node(nid) {
pn = mem_cgroup_nodeinfo(memcg, nid);
map = rcu_dereference_protected(pn->shrinker_map, true);
- if (map)
- kvfree(map);
+ kvfree(map);
rcu_assign_pointer(pn->shrinker_map, NULL);
}
}


Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb