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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
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Subject: Re: memory leak in net/sched/ipt.c?
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>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?

Not only net/sched. The C standard requires that free(NULL) works.


Jan Engelhardt
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