Re: [PATCH] remove redundant NULL pointer checks prior to calling kfree() in fs/nfsd/

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On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote:

(please keep me on CC)


checking for NULL before calling kfree() is redundant and needlessly
enlarges the kernel image, let's get rid of those checks.


Hardly. ORing a value with itself and jumping on condition is
real cheap compared with pushing a value into the stack and
calling a function. This is NOT a good change if you want
performance. You really should reconsider this activity. It
is quite counter-productive.


Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[email protected]>

--- linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm3-orig/fs/nfsd/export.c	2005-03-21 23:12:41.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm3/fs/nfsd/export.c	2005-03-25 22:48:11.000000000 +0100
@@ -189,8 +189,7 @@ static int expkey_parse(struct cache_det
 out:
	if (dom)
		auth_domain_put(dom);
-	if (buf)
-		kfree(buf);
+	kfree(buf);
	return err;
}

@@ -426,8 +425,7 @@ static int svc_export_parse(struct cache
		path_release(&nd);
	if (dom)
		auth_domain_put(dom);
-	if (buf)
-		kfree(buf);
+	kfree(buf);
	return err;
}

--- linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm3-orig/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c	2005-03-25 15:28:59.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm3/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c	2005-03-25 22:49:53.000000000 +0100
@@ -151,8 +151,7 @@ u32 *read_buf(struct nfsd4_compoundargs
	if (nbytes <= sizeof(argp->tmp))
		p = argp->tmp;
	else {
-		if (argp->tmpp)
-			kfree(argp->tmpp);
+		kfree(argp->tmpp);
		p = argp->tmpp = kmalloc(nbytes, GFP_KERNEL);
		if (!p)
			return NULL;
@@ -2474,10 +2473,8 @@ void nfsd4_release_compoundargs(struct n
		kfree(args->ops);
		args->ops = args->iops;
	}
-	if (args->tmpp) {
-		kfree(args->tmpp);
-		args->tmpp = NULL;
-	}
+	kfree(args->tmpp);
+	args->tmpp = NULL;
	while (args->to_free) {
		struct tmpbuf *tb = args->to_free;
		args->to_free = tb->next;
--- linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm3-orig/fs/nfsd/nfscache.c	2005-03-21 23:12:41.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm3/fs/nfsd/nfscache.c	2005-03-25 22:50:14.000000000 +0100
@@ -93,8 +93,7 @@ nfsd_cache_shutdown(void)

	cache_disabled = 1;

-	if (hash_list)
-		kfree (hash_list);
+	kfree(hash_list);
	hash_list = NULL;
}



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