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From: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2015 01:41:02 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net-ipvs: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "module_put"
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To: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>, Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>, Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>, Wensong Zhang <wensong@linux-vs.org>, netdev@vger.kernel.org, lvs-devel@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org" <kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>

On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 05:10:41PM +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 17:00:14 +0200
> 
> The module_put() function tests whether its argument is NULL and then
> returns immediately. Thus the test around the call is not needed.
> 
> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Thanks, applied to ipvs-next for v4.3.