Re: [BACKPORT 4.14.y 4/8] net: sctp: fix warning "NULL check before some freeing functions is not needed"
From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Date: 2019-09-03 14:52:13
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linux-sctp, lkml, stable
On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 02:58:16PM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote:
From: Hariprasad Kelam <redacted> This patch removes NULL checks before calling kfree. fixes below issues reported by coccicheck net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c:2586:3-8: WARNING: NULL check before some freeing functions is not needed. net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c:2652:3-8: WARNING: NULL check before some freeing functions is not needed. net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c:2667:3-8: WARNING: NULL check before some freeing functions is not needed. net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c:2684:3-8: WARNING: NULL check before some freeing functions is not needed.
Hi. This doesn't seem the kind of patch that should be backported to such old/stable releases. After all, it's just a cleanup. Marcelo