Re: kfree(0) - ok?

[Satyam Sharma]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Tim Bird wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have a quick question.
> 
> I'm trying to resurrect a patch from the Linux-tiny patch suite,
> to do accounting of kmalloc memory allocations.  In testing it
> with Linux 2.6.22, I've found a large number of kfrees of
> NULL pointers.
> 
> Is this considered OK?

kfree(NULL) is allowed -- for programmers' convenience.
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