linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] mm: remove unlikly NULL from kfree

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Message-Id: <20090326091511.a4e88b2f.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:15:11 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Hua Zhong <hzhong@...il.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] mm: remove unlikly NULL from kfree

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:10:19 +0000 Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> We certainly can add explicit check, but that'll keep asking for
> patches "removing useless check".  The same applies to other places,
> really.

Such patches are easily prevented by commenting the exceptional cases.
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