RE: [PATCH 09/14] Big kfree NULL check cleanup - misc remaining drivers

From: Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
Date: Thu Oct 13 2005 - 15:39:36 EST


> From: Jesper Juhl [mailto:jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx]
>
> On 10/13/05, Miller, Mike (OS Dev) <Mike.Miller@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I'm not sure I agree that these are pointless checks.
> They're not in
> > the main code path so nothing is lost by checking first.
> What if the
> > pointer is NULL????
> >
>
> If the pointer is NULL then this bit of code in kfree takes
> care of things :
>
> void kfree(const void *objp)
> {
> ...
>
> if (unlikely(!objp))
> return;
> ...
>
> Runtime behaviour is exactely the same.
> kfree checks if the pointer passed to it is NULL in any case
> and just returns if it is.

okay, I'm convinced.

Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@xxxxxx>


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