Re: [PATCH 3/9] VFS: Introduce a mount context

[David Howells]

Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > krealloc would probably be more efficient and possible
> > > readable as likely there's already padding in the original
> > > allocation.
> > 
> > The problem is if krealloc() fails: you've lost all those pointers to things
> > you then need to free.
> 
> Huh?  How could that happen?
> 
> krealloc must always use a temporary.
> If krealloc returns NULL, the original allocation is kept.

Hmmm...  Good point.

David