Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Apr 2005 03:46:17 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jesper Juhl <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] make mempool_destroy resilient against NULL pointers. |
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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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