--- a/mm/vmpressure.c~mm-vmpressure-dont-need-call-kfree-if-kstrndup-fails +++ a/mm/vmpressure.c @@ -371,10 +371,8 @@ int vmpressure_register_event(struct mem int ret = 0; spec_orig = spec = kstrndup(args, MAX_VMPRESSURE_ARGS_LEN, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!spec) { - ret = -ENOMEM; - goto out; - } + if (!spec) + return -ENOMEM; /* Find required level */ token = strsep(&spec, ",");