Re: [PATCH] kfree_skb() bug in 2.4.22

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On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:53:44 +0200
Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de> wrote:

> On Wednesday 08 October 2003 15:47, David S. Miller wrote:
> > On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 09:09:48 -0400
> >
> > Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
> > > I would prefer that you fix your code instead, to not pass NULL to
> > > kfree_skb()...
> >
> > Absolutely, there is no valid reason to pass NULL into these
> > routines.
> 
> Would you mind __attribute_nonnull__ for these functions, if we
> enable GCC 3.3 support for this[1]?

I would say yes, but why?  All this attribute does is optimize
away tests for NULL which surprise surprise we don't have any
of in kfree_skb().
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