linux-kernel - Re: [Minor patch] Reduce __print_symbol/sprint

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Message-Id: <1190386392.30016.61.camel@gilboa-home-dev.localdomain>
Date:	Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:53:12 +0200
From:	Gilboa Davara <gilboad@...il.com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Minor patch] Reduce __print_symbol/sprint_symbol stack usage.

On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 10:47 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 02:35:29PM +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > -		return sprintf(buffer, "%s+%#lx/%#lx", name, offset, size);
> > +	if (namebuf)
> > +		kfree(namebuf);
> 
> Note, the if condition is not needed, kfree handles null pointers fine.
> 
> -- Steve

Steve,

This patch has been scrapped and by another,  (hopefully) less
problematic one [1].

Thanks for the comments,
Gilboa

[1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/21/180

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