Re: [PATCH] crypto-jitterentropy: Delete unnecessary checks before the function call "kzfree"

From: Stephan Mueller
Date: Wed Jun 24 2015 - 03:55:00 EST


Am Mittwoch, 24. Juni 2015, 10:48:19 schrieb Dan Carpenter:

Hi Dan,

>The other NULL assignment isn't useful either. Also If
>"entropy_collector" is NULL then we would oops calling
>kzfree(entropy_collector->mem);
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Dereference.
>
>I don't understand the patch that you sent. We shouldn't be introducing
>jent_zalloc() or jent_zfree(). Why are you adding abstractions there?

The one C file should have no dependencies on any kernel header files. Thus,
all links to kernel functions are wrapped.

>Quite bad ones as well.

What would you suggest to change?

Thanks.

Ciao
Stephan
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