From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
Cc: Amit Choudhary <amit2030@yahoo.com>,
Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [DISCUSS] Make the variable NULL after freeing it.
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 19:36:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070101183641.GA4593@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200701011709.48349.ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
Hi!
> > I decided to keep it simple. If someone is calling kfree_nullify() with anything other than a
> > simple variable, then they should call kfree().
>
> kfree_nullify() has to replace kfree() to be of any use one day. So this is not an option.
>
Doing kfree() that writes to its argument is not an option. kfree()
looks like a function, so it should behave as one. KFREE() might be
okay.
Pavel
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-01 18:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-21 23:41 [PATCH] [DISCUSS] Make the variable NULL after freeing it Amit Choudhary
2006-12-27 17:10 ` Pavel Machek
2006-12-28 8:54 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-31 13:38 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2007-01-01 0:43 ` Ingo Oeser
2007-01-01 1:05 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2007-01-01 6:37 ` Amit Choudhary
2007-01-01 16:09 ` Ingo Oeser
2007-01-01 16:25 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-01-01 21:40 ` Ingo Oeser
2007-01-01 21:42 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-01 18:36 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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