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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:21:36 +0000
Subject: Re: thunderbolt: Deletion of unnecessary checks before the function call "ring_free"
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To: Andreas Noever <andreas.noever@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>

> ring_free does not check for null:
> http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/thunderbolt/nhi.c#L398
> 
> Maybe your software confuses the method with:
> http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/char/tpm/xen-tpmfront.c#L268

Thanks for your feedback.

I am sorry for a bit of confusion here.

1. Would it make sense that a variant for the thunderbolt ring_free()
   function will also perform input parameter validation?

2. Are any additional prefixes appropriate so that further name space
   conflicts can be better avoided?

Regards,
Markus