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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/10] sysfs: fix kmem_cache_free(NULL)
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:43:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070716154335.GA29449@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070716135028.GA2040@APFDCB5C>

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:50:28PM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> This patch fixes out of memory error handling in sysfs_new_dirent().
> kmem_cache_free() with NULL is not allowed.

Why not just allow kmem_cache_free() to allow NULL like other functions
in the kernel?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-16 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-16 13:48 [PATCH 0/10] CPU hotplug error handling fixes Akinobu Mita
2007-07-16 13:50 ` [PATCH 1/10] sysfs: fix kmem_cache_free(NULL) Akinobu Mita
2007-07-16 15:43   ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-07-16 16:53     ` Akinobu Mita
2007-07-17  7:04       ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-07-16 13:51 ` [PATCH 2/10] sysdev: add error check in sysdev_register() Akinobu Mita
2007-07-16 15:12   ` Cornelia Huck
2007-07-16 16:18     ` Akinobu Mita
2007-07-16 13:52 ` [PATCH 3/10] sysfs: fix error handling in create_files() Akinobu Mita
2007-07-16 15:29   ` Cornelia Huck
2007-07-16 16:28     ` Akinobu Mita
2007-07-16 16:29     ` Greg KH
2007-07-17 16:22       ` Akinobu Mita
2007-07-16 13:53 ` [PATCH 4/10] cpu: deliver CPU_UP_CANCELED only to NOTIFY_OKed callbacks with CPU_UP_PREPARE Akinobu Mita
2007-07-17  8:23   ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-07-17 17:18     ` Akinobu Mita
2007-07-18  6:54       ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-07-18 16:28         ` Akinobu Mita
2007-07-16 13:54 ` [PATCH 5/10] topology: remove topology_dev_map Akinobu Mita
2007-07-16 13:57 ` [PATCH 6/10] thermal_throttle: fix cpu hotplug error handling Akinobu Mita
2007-07-16 13:58 ` [PATCH 7/10] msr: " Akinobu Mita
2007-07-16 13:58 ` [PATCH 8/10] cpuid: " Akinobu Mita
2007-07-16 14:00 ` [PATCH 9/10] mce: " Akinobu Mita
2007-07-16 14:01 ` [PATCH 10/10] intel_cacheinfo: " Akinobu Mita

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