Re: [PATCH 1/10] sysfs: fix kmem_cache_free(NULL)

From: Akinobu Mita
Date: Mon Jul 16 2007 - 12:53:23 EST


2007/7/17, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>:
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:50:28PM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> This patch fixes out of memory error handling in sysfs_new_dirent().
> kmem_cache_free() with NULL is not allowed.

Why not just allow kmem_cache_free() to allow NULL like other functions
in the kernel?

It seems there was discussion about this and no conclusion
yet?

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/19/42
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