Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Aug 2016 14:45:43 -0600 | From | Jonathan Corbet <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: Clarify and complete chapter 7 |
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On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 13:12:33 -0700 Mark D Rustad <mrustad@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> + err: > >> kfree(foo->bar); > >> kfree(foo); > >> return ret; > >> > >> The bug in this code is that on some exit paths "foo" is NULL. Normally the > > > > ...except that kfree() can handle null pointers just fine, so this isn't > > actually a bug, right? Someday when somebody has time it would be good to > > come up with a better example. > > But if foo is NULL, foo->bar is not NULL and so kfree will have a problem > with it. So this is a bug.
Oops, sigh, duh. OK, ignore me. (Though technically kfree will not have a problem with it, since things won't get that far.. :)
jon
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