linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] slab: deal with NULL pointers passed to kmem_cache

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Date:	Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:49:46 -0500
From:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc:	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	ast@...dv.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: deal with NULL pointers passed to kmem_cache_free

On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 10:08:03AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> 
> > This changes kmem_cache_free() to deal with NULL objects passed to it. The 
> > current behavior is inconsistent with kfree() so there are callers 
> > passing NULL to kmem_cache_free().
> 
> Hmmm.. kmem_cache_free is significantly different. One also needs to 
> specify the slab cache.

I think this sort of thing should work:

a = kmalloc(...)
b = kmem_cache_alloc(..)
c = allocate_some_id(...)
if (!a || !b || !c) {
   free_some_id(c)
   kmem_cache_free(c)
   kfree(a);
   return -ENOMEM;
}

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