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From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
To: Dongliang Mu <dzm91@hust.edu.cn>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
	Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
	Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: mudongliang <mudongliangabcd@gmail.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: kvm: remove NULL check before kfree
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 14:01:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgifihcd.fsf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220614085035.122521-1-dzm91@hust.edu.cn>

Dongliang Mu <dzm91@hust.edu.cn> writes:

> From: mudongliang <mudongliangabcd@gmail.com>
>
> kfree can handle NULL pointer as its argument.
> According to coccinelle isnullfree check, remove NULL check
> before kfree operation.
>
> Signed-off-by: mudongliang <mudongliangabcd@gmail.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
> index 1a3658f7e6d9..d4e48b4a438b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
> @@ -236,8 +236,7 @@ void kvm_async_pf_task_wake(u32 token)
>  	raw_spin_unlock(&b->lock);
>  
>  	/* A dummy token might be allocated and ultimately not used.  */
> -	if (dummy)
> -		kfree(dummy);
> +	kfree(dummy);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_async_pf_task_wake);

Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>

-- 
Vitaly


  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-14 12:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-14  8:50 [PATCH] x86: kvm: remove NULL check before kfree Dongliang Mu
2022-06-14 12:01 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov [this message]
2022-06-14 13:36   ` Dongliang Mu

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