Re: [PATCH 1/1] tty: vt: Remove redundant null check before kfree.

[Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>]

On 21 November 2012 20:16, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 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 <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>
>> ---
>>  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 patches@linaro.org 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



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With warm regards,
Sachin