Re: [PATCH 1/1] staging: gdm72xx: Remove redundant null check before kfree in gdm_wimax.c

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On 21 November 2012 14:47, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:29:36AM +0530, Sachin Kamat wrote:
>> kfree on a null pointer is a no-op.
>>
>
> kdelete() used to accept NULL pointers but now it will oops.

You are right. We can either leave it the way it was (i.e. drop this
patch) or I remove the NULL assignment
and re-send?

 No one
> ever passes a NULL pointer, so it doesn't cause a problem.  But if
> you noticed that, please put it into the changelog so we don't freak
> out.


>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>



-- 
With warm regards,
Sachin
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