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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Balbir Singh <balbir_soni@hotmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Trivial patch against mempool
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 19:02:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020222190256.C16169@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F24fGB9wIWXLU9778dv00003562@hotmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <F24fGB9wIWXLU9778dv00003562@hotmail.com>; from balbir_soni@hotmail.com on Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 12:28:14PM -0800

On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 12:28:14PM -0800, Balbir Singh wrote:
> Check if the alloc_fn and free_fn are not NULL. The caller generally
> ensures that alloc_fn and free_fn are valid. It would not harm
> to check. This makes the checking in mempool_create() more complete.

Rather than leak memory in that case, why not just BUG_ON null 
function pointers so that people know what code is at fault?

		-ben

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-02-23  0:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-22 20:28 [PATCH] Trivial patch against mempool Balbir Singh
2002-02-22 21:40 ` Marcus Alanen
2002-02-23  0:02 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-22 21:59 Balbir Singh
2002-02-23  0:37 Balbir Singh

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