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From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] x86: Debug Store - call kfree if only we really need it
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 19:41:50 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080401154150.GA7654@cvg> (raw)

We should call for kfree if only we really need it.
Though it's safe to call kfree with NULL pointer passed
in this code we've already tested the pointer and can
eliminate the call

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
---

 ds.c |    8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.git/arch/x86/kernel/ds.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/arch/x86/kernel/ds.c	2008-03-30 15:05:50.000000000 +0400
+++ linux-2.6.git/arch/x86/kernel/ds.c	2008-04-01 19:20:20.000000000 +0400
@@ -220,11 +220,11 @@ int ds_allocate(void **dsp, size_t bts_s
 
 int ds_free(void **dsp)
 {
-	if (*dsp)
+	if (*dsp) {
 		kfree((void *)get_bts_buffer_base(*dsp));
-	kfree(*dsp);
-	*dsp = NULL;
-
+		kfree(*dsp);
+		*dsp = NULL;
+	}
 	return 0;
 }
 

             reply	other threads:[~2008-04-01 15:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-01 15:41 Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2008-04-04  8:13 ` [PATCH] x86: Debug Store - call kfree if only we really need it Ingo Molnar

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