mm/slab.c: clean code by removing redundant if condition

The removed code was unnecessary and changed nothing in the flow, since in
case of returning NULL by 'kmem_cache_alloc_node' returning 'freelist'
from the function in question is the same as returning NULL.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Nosek <mateusznosek0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200915230329.13002-1-mateusznosek0@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index f658e86..04bc6a6 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -2305,8 +2305,6 @@ static void *alloc_slabmgmt(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
                /* Slab management obj is off-slab. */
                freelist = kmem_cache_alloc_node(cachep->freelist_cache,
                                              local_flags, nodeid);
-               if (!freelist)
-                       return NULL;
        } else {
                /* We will use last bytes at the slab for freelist */
                freelist = addr + (PAGE_SIZE << cachep->gfporder) -