Re: [PATCH] mm: ksize() should silently accept a NULL pointer

From: Christopher Lameter
Date: Wed Jun 17 2020 - 12:23:07 EST


On Tue, 16 Jun 2020, William Kucharski wrote:

> Other mm routines such as kfree() and kzfree() silently do the right
> thing if passed a NULL pointer, so ksize() should do the same.

Ok so the size of an no object pointer is zero? Ignoring the freeing
of a nonexisting object makes sense. But determining it size?