On 21 November 2012 20:16, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 10:49:07AM +0530, Sachin Kamat wrote: >> kfree on a NULL pointer is a no-op. >> >> Signed-off-by: Sachin Kamat <[email protected]> >> --- >> drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c | 6 ++---- >> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c b/drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c >> index 2aaa0c2..248381b 100644 >> --- a/drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c >> +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c >> @@ -410,10 +410,8 @@ static void con_release_unimap(struct uni_pagedir *p) >> kfree(p->inverse_translations[i]); >> p->inverse_translations[i] = NULL; >> } >> - if (p->inverse_trans_unicode) { >> - kfree(p->inverse_trans_unicode); >> - p->inverse_trans_unicode = NULL; >> - } >> + kfree(p->inverse_trans_unicode); >> + p->inverse_trans_unicode = NULL; > > kfree with NULL is a no-op, but the line after that just caused a kernel > crash if it was NULL, so I can't accept this type of thing. > > Please be more careful.
My mistake. Apologies for the same. Do we need to assign the pointer to NULL after freeing? > > What's with the [email protected] email address? What is that for? That is a logging mechanism (done by patchwork) for all patches sent by Linaro engineers. > > thanks, > > greg k-h -- With warm regards, Sachin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
