Re: memory leak in net/sched/ipt.c?

[Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>]

* jamal <1111583497.1089.92.camel@jzny.localdomain> 2005-03-23 08:11
> On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 07:55, Thomas Graf wrote:
> > * jamal <1111581618.1088.72.camel@jzny.localdomain> 2005-03-23 07:40
> 
> > > Just a small correction to patchlet:
> > > The second kfree should check for existence of t.
> > 
> > t is either valid or NULL so it's not a problem, unless you want
> > to create janitor work of course. ;->
> 
> if t is null you still goto rtattr_failure
> I have seen people put little comments of "kfree will work if you
> pass it NULL" - are you saying such assumptions exist all over
> net/sched?

kfree simply does nothing if it is given a null pointer so that
goto rtattr_failure for t == NULL  is handled just fine without
a check. I will never get used to this behaviour and policy as
well though, it somewhat makes code less readable.

> didnt understand the janitor part.

It will probably be removed again by one of the regular 'remove
unnecessary pre kfree checks' patchsets.
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