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

Al Viro
2007-01-08T08:37:24Z

On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 12:31:44AM -0800, Amit Choudhary wrote:
>
> --- Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
>
> > On 1/8/07, Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > And as I explained, it can result in longer code too. So, why
> > > > keep this value around. Why not re-initialize it to NULL.
> > >
> > > Because initialization increases code size.
> >
> > And it also effectively blocks the slab debugging code from doing its
> > job detecting double-frees.
> >
>
> Man, so you do want someone to set 'x' to NULL after freeing it, so that the slab debugging code
> can catch double frees. If you set it to NULL then double free is harmless. So, you want something
> harmful in the system and then debug it with the slab debugging code. Man, doesn't make sense to
> me.

_Definitely_ cargo-cult programming...