linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] kernel/kfifo.c: fix "interger as NULL pointer" warning.

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Message-ID: <1264353324.5592.1.camel@wall-e>
Date:	Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:15:24 +0100
From:	Stefani Seibold <stefani@...bold.net>
To:	Thiago Farina <tfransosi@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] kernel/kfifo.c: fix "interger as NULL pointer"
 warning.

Am Sonntag, den 24.01.2010, 11:03 -0500 schrieb Thiago Farina:
> kernel/kfifo.c:83:35: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
> 

I don't know where you get this kind of warning. But passing 0 for a
NULL pointer is ANSI C standard.

> Signed-off-by: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@...il.com>
> ---
>  kernel/kfifo.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/kfifo.c b/kernel/kfifo.c
> index 32c5c15..6fe4a56 100644
> --- a/kernel/kfifo.c
> +++ b/kernel/kfifo.c
> @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ int kfifo_alloc(struct kfifo *fifo, unsigned int size, gfp_t gfp_mask)
>  
>  	buffer = kmalloc(size, gfp_mask);
>  	if (!buffer) {
> -		_kfifo_init(fifo, 0, 0);
> +		_kfifo_init(fifo, NULL, 0);
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  	}
>  


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