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SubjectRe: [PATCH] make mempool_destroy resilient against NULL pointers.
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> wrote:
> >
> >
> > General rule (as I understand it) is that functions that free resources
> > should handle being passed NULL pointers - mempool_destroy() will
> > currently explode if passed a NULL pointer, the patch below makes it safe
> > to pass it NULL.
>
> The best response to mempool_destroy(0) is an oops. There's no legitimate
> reason for doing it.
>
Ok, ignore the patch then.

--
Jesper


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