Re: [PATCH 2/2] virtiofs: Improve error handling in virtio_fs_get_tree()

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Fri Dec 29 2023 - 03:51:48 EST


On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 09:38:47AM +0100, Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2023 09:15:07 +0100
>
> The kfree() function was called in two cases by
> the virtio_fs_get_tree() function during error handling
> even if the passed variable contained a null pointer.

So what? kfree(NULL) is perfectly acceptable. Are you trying to
optimise an error path?