Re: [PATCH RESEND -next] lsm_audit: Clean up redundant NULL pointer check

From: Paul Moore
Date: Tue Aug 16 2022 - 03:02:14 EST


On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 10:49 PM xiujianfeng <xiujianfeng@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 在 2022/7/14 10:33, Paul Moore 写道:
> > On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 9:27 PM Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> The implements of {ip,tcp,udp,dccp,sctp,ipv6}_hdr(skb) guarantee that
> >> they will never return NULL, and elsewhere users don't do the check
> >> as well, so remove the check here.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> security/lsm_audit.c | 14 +-------------
> >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 13 deletions(-)
> > Hi Xiu Jianfeng,
> >
> > We just changed LSM maintainers earlier this week, and while I haven't
> > forgotten about your patch (I reviewed it previously), it is too late
> > in this current release cycle (-rc6) to merge non-critical fixes.
> > This would go into the LSM tree after the upcoming merge window.
> >
> > Thank you for your patience and understanding.
>
> Hi, paul, I get it, thanks very much :)

I just merged this into the lsm/next branch, thanks for your patience.

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