On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 11:52:06AM -0300, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote: > On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 02:58:16PM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote: > > From: Hariprasad Kelam <[email protected]> > > > > This patch removes NULL checks before calling kfree. > > > > fixes below issues reported by coccicheck > > net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c:2586:3-8: WARNING: NULL check before some > > freeing functions is not needed. > > net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c:2652:3-8: WARNING: NULL check before some > > freeing functions is not needed. > > net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c:2667:3-8: WARNING: NULL check before some > > freeing functions is not needed. > > net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c:2684:3-8: WARNING: NULL check before some > > freeing functions is not needed. > > Hi. This doesn't seem the kind of patch that should be backported to > such old/stable releases. After all, it's just a cleanup.
I agree, this does not seem necessary _unless_ it is needed for a later real fix. thanks, greg k-h
