On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 05:50:43PM -0400, Bill Pemberton wrote:
> kfree() knows how to deal with NULL, so there's no reason to check for
> NULL before passing something to it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bill Pemberton <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/hv/ChannelMgmt.c |    6 ++----
>  drivers/staging/hv/Hv.c          |   10 +++++-----
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/ChannelMgmt.c 
> b/drivers/staging/hv/ChannelMgmt.c
> index 43f28f2..8d5f305 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/hv/ChannelMgmt.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/hv/ChannelMgmt.c
> @@ -642,10 +642,8 @@ int VmbusChannelRequestOffers(void)
>  
>  
>  Cleanup:
> -     if (msgInfo) {
> -             kfree(msgInfo->WaitEvent);
> -             kfree(msgInfo);
> -     }
> +     kfree(msgInfo->WaitEvent);

If msgInfo was NULL, you just oopsed here :(

> +     kfree(msgInfo);

This is ok to pass NULL to.

>  
>       DPRINT_EXIT(VMBUS);
>       return ret;
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/Hv.c b/drivers/staging/hv/Hv.c
> index 62debf8..2e2222d 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/hv/Hv.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/hv/Hv.c
> @@ -305,11 +305,11 @@ void HvCleanup(void)
>  
>       DPRINT_ENTER(VMBUS);
>  
> -     if (gHvContext.SignalEventBuffer) {
> -             kfree(gHvContext.SignalEventBuffer);
> -             gHvContext.SignalEventBuffer = NULL;
> -             gHvContext.SignalEventParam = NULL;
> -     }
> +
> +     kfree(gHvContext.SignalEventBuffer);
> +     gHvContext.SignalEventBuffer = NULL;
> +     gHvContext.SignalEventParam = NULL;

Is it "safe" to set gHvContext.SignalEventParam to NULL, even if
gHvContext.SignalEventBuffer was NULL to start with?

thanks,

greg k-h
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