Re: [PATCH] kfree_skb() bug in 2.4.22

From: Ingo Oeser
Date: Fri Oct 10 2003 - 10:47:18 EST


On Friday 10 October 2003 15:00, David S. Miller wrote:
> Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Would you mind __attribute_nonnull__ for these functions, if we
> > enable GCC 3.3 support for this[1]?
>
> I would say yes, but why? All this attribute does is optimize
> away tests for NULL which surprise surprise we don't have any
> of in kfree_skb().

And it wouldn't warn about passing NULL to these functions? That's bad...
But maybe sparse/smatch are better for this...


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