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From: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document kfree and vfree NULL usage
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 23:39:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041127233952.GA5891@compsoc.man.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1101565560.9988.20.camel@localhost>

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.

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?

john

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-11-27 23:39 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 [this message]
2004-11-28  8:00   ` Pekka Enberg
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-11-27 22:17 linux

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