Re: [PATCH] make mempool_destroy resilient against NULL pointers.

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On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Jesper Juhl <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > General rule (as I understand it) is that functions that free resources 
> > should handle being passed NULL pointers - mempool_destroy() will 
> > currently explode if passed a NULL pointer, the patch below makes it safe 
> > to pass it NULL.
> 
> The best response to mempool_destroy(0) is an oops.  There's no legitimate
> reason for doing it.
> 
Ok, ignore the patch then.

-- 
Jesper


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