On Wed, 10 Sep 2014, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > I'd much rather depending on better testing and static checkers to fix > them, since kfree *is* a hot path. BTW if we stretch this argument a little bit more, we should also kill the ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR() check from kfree() and make it callers responsibility to perform the checking only if applicable ... we are currently doing a lot of pointless checking in cases where caller would be able to guarantee that the pointer is going to be non-NULL. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>