On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Johannes Berg wrote:
> >
> > There is no use of ZERO_OR_NULL ptr in krealloc. Linus added a check to
> > ksize() instead so that ksize(NULL) returns 0 instead of failing.
>
> However, this still doesn't fix the other corner case I pointed out:
> krealloc(NULL, 0, GFP_KERNEL) will give you a NULL pointer instead of a
> ZERO_SIZE_PTR afaict.
It will give you a ZERO_SIZE_PTR
void *krealloc(const void *p, size_t new_size, gfp_t flags)
{
void *ret;
size_t ks;
if (unlikely(!new_size)) {
kfree(p);
return ZERO_SIZE_PTR;
}
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