From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document kfree and vfree NULL usage
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 10:00:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1101628822.9996.2.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041127233952.GA5891@compsoc.man.ac.uk>
On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 04:26:00PM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > This patch adds comments for kfree() and vfree() stating that both accept
> > NULL pointers. I audited vfree() callers and there seems to be lots of
> > confusion over this in the kernel.
On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 23:39 +0000, John Levon wrote:
> Erm, are you sure about this? Somebody had to patch OProfile because
> vfree() didn't like NULL value being passed in. When did this change?
Yes, I am sure. vfree() calls __vunmap() which returns immediately if
the passed pointer is NULL. I don't know when this changed.
Pekka
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-28 8:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-27 14:26 [PATCH] Document kfree and vfree NULL usage Pekka Enberg
2004-11-27 17:13 ` Marcel Sebek
2004-11-27 19:30 ` Pekka Enberg
2004-11-27 20:43 ` Marcel Sebek
2004-11-27 21:23 ` Phil Oester
2004-11-28 8:05 ` Pekka Enberg
2004-11-28 9:04 ` Marcel Sebek
2004-11-29 14:18 ` [Alsa-devel] " Takashi Iwai
2004-11-27 23:58 ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-11-28 0:17 ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-28 8:20 ` Pekka Enberg
2004-11-27 23:39 ` John Levon
2004-11-28 8:00 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
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2004-11-27 22:17 linux
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