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Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 10:05:58 +0900 (JST)
From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
To: ioe-lkml@...eria.de
Cc: bernd@...mix.at, jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de, pavel@....cz,
amit2030@...oo.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [DISCUSS] Make the variable NULL after freeing it.
In article <200701010143.02870.ioe-lkml@...eria.de> (at Mon, 1 Jan 2007 01:43:00 +0100), Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@...eria.de> says:
> On Sunday, 31. December 2006 14:38, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> > That depends on the decision/definition if (so called) "double free" is
> > an error or not (and "free(NULL)" must work in POSIX-compliant
> > environments).
>
> A double free of non-NULL is certainly an error.
> So the idea of setting it to NULL is ok, since then you can
> kfree the variable over and over again without any harm.
I dislike (or, say, I hate) this idea; people should fix up
such broken code paths.
--yoshfuji
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