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    SubjectRe: kfree(NULL)
    Andrew Morton writes:
    > > Yes, kfree(NULL) is supposed to be uncommon. If someone's doing it a lot
    > > then we should fix up the callers.

    On 4/22/06, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote:
    > Well, we'd have to start by fixing up the janitors that run around
    > taking out the if statements in the callers. :)

    No, it's not the janitors fault that we have paths doing lots of
    kfree(NULL) calls. NULL check removal didn't create the problem, but
    it makes it more visible definitely.

    Pekka
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