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Message-ID: <6591e0fcb089f_21410c2946c@willemb.c.googlers.com.notmuch>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2023 16:45:32 -0500
From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
To: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>,
netdev@...r.kernel.org,
kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] packet: Improve exception handling in fanout_add()
Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2023 16:30:51 +0100
>
> The kfree() function was called in some cases by the fanout_add() function
> even if the passed variable contained a null pointer.
> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
It is fine to call kfree with a possible NULL pointer:
/**
* kfree - free previously allocated memory
* @object: pointer returned by kmalloc() or kmem_cache_alloc()
*
* If @object is NULL, no operation is performed.
*/
void kfree(const void *object)
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