From a120586873d3d64de93bd6d593d237e131994e58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alan Stern Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 20:32:37 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Allow NULL pointers in percpu_free The patch (as824b) makes percpu_free() ignore NULL arguments, as one would expect for a deallocation routine. (Note that free_percpu is #defined as percpu_free in include/linux/percpu.h.) A few callers are updated to remove now-unneeded tests for NULL. A few other callers already seem to assume that passing a NULL pointer to percpu_free() is okay! The patch also removes an unnecessary NULL check in percpu_depopulate(). Signed-off-by: Alan Stern Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- net/ipv6/af_inet6.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/ipv6') diff --git a/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c b/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c index 87c8f54872b7..e5cd83b2205d 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c +++ b/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c @@ -720,10 +720,8 @@ snmp6_mib_free(void *ptr[2]) { if (ptr == NULL) return; - if (ptr[0]) - free_percpu(ptr[0]); - if (ptr[1]) - free_percpu(ptr[1]); + free_percpu(ptr[0]); + free_percpu(ptr[1]); ptr[0] = ptr[1] = NULL; } -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b