Re: [PATCH] Document kfree and vfree NULL usage

From: John Levon
Date: Sat Nov 27 2004 - 18:41:26 EST


On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 04:26:00PM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> This patch adds comments for kfree() and vfree() stating that both accept
> NULL pointers. I audited vfree() callers and there seems to be lots of
> confusion over this in the kernel.

Erm, are you sure about this? Somebody had to patch OProfile because
vfree() didn't like NULL value being passed in. When did this change?

john
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