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Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 18:53:56 +0300
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/sl[aou]b: make kfree() aware of error pointers
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On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 05:28:11PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> 
> Too late for this now, yes.

We could still introduce a __kfree_fast_path() which doesn't have
checking.

regards,
dan carpenter