Re: [PATCH] include/linux/slab.h: new KFREE() macro.

Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-07T10:24:29Z

On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 12:46:50AM -0800, Amit Choudhary wrote:
> Well, I am not proposing this as a debugging aid. The idea is about correct programming, atleast
> from my view. Ideally, if you kfree(x), then you should set x to NULL. So, either programmers do
> it themselves or a ready made macro do it for them.

No, you should not. I suspect that's the basic point you're missing.