[PATCH] staging: gasket: remove null ptr check before kfree

Himanshu Jha himanshujha199640 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 12 12:03:31 UTC 2018


On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 12:28:37PM +0530, Sumit Kumar wrote:
> Remove null ptr check before kfree because kfree is null ptr safe.
> Issue found by checkpatch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sumit Kumar <sumit686215 at example.com>

Hmm. Victim of copy-paste I guess.
No worries. Next time just use:

$  git commit -s

To understand what -s flag does, refer `man git commit`.

> ---

Now, this where you should have put versions just below the '---':

v2:
   - corrected email address.

And yes, the subject should be:

"Subject: [PATCH v2] staging: gasket: remove null ptr check before kfree"

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html#the-canonical-patch-format

Hope that helps!

-- 
Himanshu Jha
Undergraduate Student
Department of Electronics & Communication
Guru Tegh Bahadur Institute of Technology


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