| To: | Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com> |
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| Subject: | Re: BUG : Memory leak in Linux 2.4.2 MIPS SMP kernel |
| From: | James Simmons <jsimmons@transvirtual.com> |
| Date: | Tue, 13 Nov 2001 16:28:22 -0800 (PST) |
| Cc: | Krishna Kondaka <krishna@sanera.net>, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com |
| In-reply-to: | <20011114111936.C10410@dea.linux-mips.net> |
| Sender: | owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com |
> > Hm. It was pointed out that kfree actually does the checking for us. > > Do we really need the check? > > Seems that check sneaked in without telling me :-) I didn't know here. I have been bite by kfree when passing a null pointer to it before. I'm glad their is a nice check. |
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