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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux.dev, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] virtiofs: Improve error handling in virtio_fs_get_tree()
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2023 08:51:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZY6Iir/idOZBiREy@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5745d81c-3c06-4871-9785-12a469870934@web.de>

On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 09:38:47AM +0100, Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2023 09:15:07 +0100
> 
> The kfree() function was called in two cases by
> the virtio_fs_get_tree() function during error handling
> even if the passed variable contained a null pointer.

So what?  kfree(NULL) is perfectly acceptable.  Are you trying to
optimise an error path?


  reply	other threads:[~2023-12-29  8:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-29  8:34 [PATCH 0/2] virtiofs: Adjustments for two function implementations Markus Elfring
2023-12-29  8:36 ` [PATCH 1/2] virtiofs: Improve three size determinations Markus Elfring
2024-01-02 20:41   ` Vivek Goyal
2023-12-29  8:38 ` [PATCH 2/2] virtiofs: Improve error handling in virtio_fs_get_tree() Markus Elfring
2023-12-29  8:51   ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2023-12-29  9:10     ` Markus Elfring
2023-12-29 14:21       ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-01-02  9:35         ` [2/2] " Markus Elfring
2024-01-02 10:17           ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-01-02 10:47             ` Markus Elfring
2024-01-02 16:28               ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-01-02 16:50                 ` Markus Elfring
2024-01-02 20:21   ` [PATCH 2/2] " Vivek Goyal

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