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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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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