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Message-ID: <547B6F9A.8030806@gmx.de>
Date:	Sun, 30 Nov 2014 20:27:22 +0100
From:	Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@....de>
To:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
CC:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] net-PA Semi: Deletion of unnecessary checks before
 the function call "pci_dev_put"

On 30.11.2014 18:47, Julia Lawall wrote:

> 
> I have heard of at least one case where the problem you are raising
> happened in practice...
> 
> julia

If one case is known then there are probably a lot more that have not
been discovered yet.
Maybe this topic should be clarified somewhere (e.g. in "CodingStyle")?
On the other hand i always found it obvious that its the callers
responsibility to only pass sane parameters to the called functions...

Regards,
Lino
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