Re: kfree(0) - ok?

From: Satyam Sharma
Date: Tue Aug 14 2007 - 19:00:56 EST




On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Tim Bird wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a quick question.
>
> I'm trying to resurrect a patch from the Linux-tiny patch suite,
> to do accounting of kmalloc memory allocations. In testing it
> with Linux 2.6.22, I've found a large number of kfrees of
> NULL pointers.
>
> Is this considered OK?

kfree(NULL) is allowed -- for programmers' convenience.
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