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From: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>
To: mdshahid03@gmail.com, Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>, Ronnie Sahlberg
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Cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org,
 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mohammad Shahid <mdshahid03@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] smb: client: remove redundant NULL check before kfree()
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mdshahid03@gmail.com writes:

> From: Mohammad Shahid <mdshahid03@gmail.com>
>
> kfree() safely handles NULL pointers, so the explicit NULL check
> before calling kfree() is unnecessary.
> ...

Applied.