Re: [PATCH] slab: deal with NULL pointers passed to kmem_cache_free

[Christoph Lameter]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Pekka J Enberg wrote:

> This changes kmem_cache_free() to deal with NULL objects passed to it. The 
> current behavior is inconsistent with kfree() so there are callers 
> passing NULL to kmem_cache_free().

Hmmm.. kmem_cache_free is significantly different. One also needs to 
specify the slab cache.
 
> Andreas, can you please confirm this fixes the oops you reported on 
> linux-scsi?

Could we fix the BUG instead?
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