Re: Fix hostap_cs double kfree

From: Eugene Teo
Date: Tue Mar 14 2006 - 23:00:15 EST


<quote sender="Felipe W Damasio">
> Eugene Teo wrote:
>
> > failed:
> >- kfree(parse);
> >- kfree(hw_priv);
> >+ if (parse)
> >+ kfree(parse);
> >+ if (hw_priv)
> >+ kfree(hw_priv);
>
> I don't think those if's are needed, since the kfree code already does:
>
> void kfree(const void *objp)
> {
> if (unlikely(!objp))
> return;
> ...
> }
>
> But if you really want to use it, I suggest using if (likely
> (!<pointer>)) there to hint gcc of a possible optimization.

Ah, thanks for the tip.

Eugene
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