Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] tools: ynl: check for null ptr on dump free

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Mon,  3 Aug 2026 20:16:51 +0000 Thaison Phan wrote:
> Static analysis

What's the tool? I guess we can do this but I'd factor it out to 
a separate check at the start of the function. Otherwise it reads
as if there could be a NULL on the list itself.

FWIW NULL is not an empty list, it's a dump error. So the static
tool / LLM is definitely wrong. But I guess free(NULL) is supposed
to be a noop in general so whatever.