On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:

> On (06/19/15 08:50), Julia Lawall wrote:
> > On Thu, 18 Jun 2015, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> >
> > > On (06/17/15 16:14), David Rientjes wrote:
> > > [..]
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]>
> > > > > Reported-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
> > > > > LKML-reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/8/583
> > > >
> > > > Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
> > > >
> > > > kmem_cache_destroy() isn't a fastpath, this is long overdue.  Now 
> > > > where's
> > > > the patch to remove the NULL checks from the callers? ;)
> > > >
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Yes, Julia Lawall (Cc'd) already has a patch set ready for submission.
> >
> > I'll refresh it and send it shortly.
> >
>
> I'll re-up this thread.
>
> Julia, do you want to wait until these 3 patches will be merged to
> Linus's tree (just to be on a safe side, so someone's tree (out of sync
> with linux-next) will not go crazy)?

I think it would be safer.  Code may crash if the test is removed before
the function can tolerate it.

julia
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