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Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/5] mm/mempool: allow NULL `pool' pointer in mempool_destroy()

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On Tue, 9 Jun 2015, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:

> mempool_destroy() does not tolerate a NULL mempool_t pointer
> argument and performs a NULL-pointer dereference. This requires
> additional attention and effort from developers/reviewers and
> forces all mempool_destroy() callers to do a NULL check
> 
> 	if (pool)
> 		mempool_destroy(pool);
> 
> Or, otherwise, be invalid mempool_destroy() users.
> 
> Tweak mempool_destroy() and NULL-check the pointer there.
> 
> Proposed by Andrew Morton.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
> Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> LKML-reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/8/583

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>

I like how your patch series is enabling us to remove many lines from the 
source code.  But doing s/Reported-by/Suggested-by/ can also make your 
changelog two lines shorter ;)
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Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/5] mm/mempool: allow NULL `pool' pointer in  mempool_destroy() David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> - 2015-06-18 01:30 +0200
  Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/5] mm/mempool: allow NULL `pool' pointer in  mempool_destroy() Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2015-06-18 02:00 +0200

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