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Subject[2.6 patch] mm/slub.c: remove unneeded NULL check
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 03:52:44PM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>
> Hi Adrian,
>
> On 2/20/2008, "Adrian Bunk" <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> > The Coverity checker spotted the following inconsequent NULL checking
> > introduced by commit 8ff12cfc009a2a38d87fa7058226fe197bb2696f:
> >
> > <-- snip -->
> >
> > ...
> > static inline int is_end(void *addr)
> > {
> > return (unsigned long)addr & PAGE_MAPPING_ANON;
> > }
> > ...
> > static void deactivate_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, struct kmem_cache_cpu *c)
> > {
> > ...
> > if (c->freelist) <----------------------------------------
> > stat(c, DEACTIVATE_REMOTE_FREES);
>
> I spotted this too.

I missed that.

> c->freelist should never be NULL so why not send a
> patch to Christoph?

Patch below.

cu
Adrian


<-- snip -->


There's no reason for checking c->freelist for being NULL here (and we'd
anyway Oops below if it was).

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>

---
dae2a3c60f258f3ad2522b85d79b735a89d702f0 diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 74c65af..072e0a6 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -1404,8 +1404,7 @@ static void deactivate_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, struct kmem_cache_cpu *c)
struct page *page = c->page;
int tail = 1;

- if (c->freelist)
- stat(c, DEACTIVATE_REMOTE_FREES);
+ stat(c, DEACTIVATE_REMOTE_FREES);
/*
* Merge cpu freelist into freelist. Typically we get here
* because both freelists are empty. So this is unlikely

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