Re: [PATCH] include/linux/slab.h: new KFREE() macro.

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sun Jan 07 2007 - 05:24:45 EST


On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 12:46:50AM -0800, Amit Choudhary wrote:
> Well, I am not proposing this as a debugging aid. The idea is about correct programming, atleast
> from my view. Ideally, if you kfree(x), then you should set x to NULL. So, either programmers do
> it themselves or a ready made macro do it for them.

No, you should not. I suspect that's the basic point you're missing.

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