Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 22 Apr 2006 10:43:22 +0300 | From | "Pekka Enberg" <> | Subject | Re: kfree(NULL) |
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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.
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