On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 14:25 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jun 2015 21:04:48 +0900 Sergey Senozhatsky
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > The existing pools' destroy() functions do not allow NULL pool pointers;
> > instead, every destructor() caller forced to check if pool is not NULL,
> > which:
> > a) requires additional attention from developers/reviewers
> > b) may lead to a NULL pointer dereferences if (a) didn't work
> >
> >
> > First 3 patches tweak
> > - kmem_cache_destroy()
> > - mempool_destroy()
> > - dma_pool_destroy()
> >
> > to handle NULL pointers.
>
> Well I like it, even though it's going to cause a zillion little cleanup
> patches.
>
> checkpatch already has a "kfree(NULL) is safe and this check is
> probably not required" test so I guess Joe will need to get busy ;)
Maybe it'll be Julia's crew.
The checkpatch change is pretty trivial
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 69c4716..3d6e34d 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -4801,7 +4801,7 @@ sub process {
# check for needless "if (<foo>) fn(<foo>)" uses
if ($prevline =~ /\bif\s*\(\s*($Lval)\s*\)/) {
my $expr = '\s*\(\s*' . quotemeta($1) . '\s*\)\s*;';
- if ($line =~
/\b(kfree|usb_free_urb|debugfs_remove(?:_recursive)?)$expr/) {
+ if ($line =~
/\b(kfree|usb_free_urb|debugfs_remove(?:_recursive)?|(?:kmem_cache|mempool|dma_pool)_destroy)$expr/)
{
WARN('NEEDLESS_IF',
"$1(NULL) is safe and this check is
probably not required\n" . $hereprev);
}
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