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Subject: Re: [PATCH] landlock: Remove unnecessary conditionals
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To:     Jingyu Wang <jingyuwang_vip@163.com>, paul@paul-moore.com,
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Thanks for the review. I agree that this condition is optional but it 
makes the code less error prone, more consistent, easier to read, and 
avoids jumping to an external function. I then don't think this minor 
change is worth it.

On 08/09/2022 21:02, Jingyu Wang wrote:
> iput() has already handled null and non-null parameter, so it is no
> need to use if().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jingyu Wang <jingyuwang_vip@163.com>
> ---
>   security/landlock/fs.c | 3 +--
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/security/landlock/fs.c b/security/landlock/fs.c
> index 6121e9834961..3d0a8a418ce4 100644
> --- a/security/landlock/fs.c
> +++ b/security/landlock/fs.c
> @@ -1009,8 +1009,7 @@ static void hook_sb_delete(struct super_block *const sb)
>   	spin_unlock(&sb->s_inode_list_lock);
>   
>   	/* Puts the inode reference from the last loop walk, if any. */
> -	if (prev_inode)
> -		iput(prev_inode);
> +	iput(prev_inode);
>   	/* Waits for pending iput() in release_inode(). */
>   	wait_var_event(&landlock_superblock(sb)->inode_refs,
>   		       !atomic_long_read(&landlock_superblock(sb)->inode_refs));
> 
> base-commit: 5957ac6635a1a12d4aa2661bbf04d3085a73372a