Re: Style question: Should one check for NULL pointers?

From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Style question: Should one check for NULL pointers?
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 14:40:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200307121840.h6CIeKIj004212@eeyore.valparaiso.cl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:16:02 -0400." <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0307111108500.21359-100000@netrider.rowland.org>

Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> said:

[...]

> But if you look very far through the kernel sources you will see many 
> occurrences of code similar to this:
> 
> 	static void release(struct xxx *ptr)
> 	{
> 		if (!ptr)
> 			return;
> 	...
> 
> I can't see any reason for keeping something like that.

Just like free(3)
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