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From: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 14:26:19 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/pseries: Delete an unnecessary kfree() call in dlpar_store()
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To: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@gmail.com>, Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@sony.com>, Gen Zhang <blackgod016574@gmail.com>

Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> writes:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 13:34:02 +0200
>
> A null pointer would be passed to a call of the function “kfree”
> immediately after a call of the function “kstrdup” failed at one place.
> Remove this superfluous function call.
>
> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>

Acked-by: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@linux.ibm.com>