Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:06:19 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: remove null checks before kfree |
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On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:08:29AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 03:53:40AM -0500, Ilia Mirkin wrote: > > This patch was created with the following semantic patch: > > > > // <smpl> > > @@ > > expression E; > > @@ > > > > - if (E != NULL) kfree(E); > > + kfree(E); > > // </smpl> > > OK, so when will we be removing the unlikely() from the implementations > of kfree()? > > if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(block))) > return;
Have you run the tool that checks for unlikely being true here? Odds are, even with all of these changes, the large majority of the time kfree is called, it has a valid pointer.
thanks,
greg k-h
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