Re: [PATCH] kfree_skb() bug in 2.4.22

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Ingo Oeser wrote:
On Friday 10 October 2003 15:00, David S. Miller wrote:

Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de> wrote:

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().


And it wouldn't warn about passing NULL to these functions? That's bad...
But maybe sparse/smatch are better for this...

Things like smatch, sparse, and checker can use the __attribute_nonnull__. I'd say it's a good idea. Should I submit the patch, then, since I'm the one who like the idea? - Dan

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