From f261c16861b82951bd2125706660ce4602930563 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pavel Begunkov Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 11:34:10 +0300 Subject: io_uring: comment on kfree(iovec) checks kfree() handles NULL pointers well, but io_{read,write}() checks it because of performance reasons. Leave a comment there for those who are tempted to patch it. Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- fs/io_uring.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs') diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c index d43a20a554e4..b9ca5a54dc20 100644 --- a/fs/io_uring.c +++ b/fs/io_uring.c @@ -3204,6 +3204,7 @@ done: kiocb_done(kiocb, ret, cs); ret = 0; out_free: + /* it's reportedly faster than delegating the null check to kfree() */ if (iovec) kfree(iovec); return ret; @@ -3300,6 +3301,7 @@ copy_iov: return -EAGAIN; } out_free: + /* it's reportedly faster than delegating the null check to kfree() */ if (iovec) kfree(iovec); return ret; -- cgit