Re: [PATCH] [DISCUSS] Make the variable NULL after freeing it.

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> Was just wondering if the _var_ in kfree(_var_) could be set to NULL after its freed. It may solve
> the problem of accessing some freed memory as the kernel will crash since _var_ was set to NULL.
> 
> Does this make sense? If yes, then how about renaming kfree to something else and providing a
> kfree macro that would do the following:
> 
> #define kfree(x) do { \
>                       new_kfree(x); \
>                       x = NULL; \
>                     } while(0)
> 
> There might be other better ways too.

No, that would be very confusing. Otoh having

KFREE() do kfree() and assignment might be acceptable.

						Pavel
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