On 30.11.2014 18:47, Julia Lawall wrote: > > I have heard of at least one case where the problem you are raising > happened in practice... > > julia If one case is known then there are probably a lot more that have not been discovered yet. Maybe this topic should be clarified somewhere (e.g. in "CodingStyle")? On the other hand i always found it obvious that its the callers responsibility to only pass sane parameters to the called functions... Regards, Lino -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html