Re: [PATCH] drivers/acpi/ec.c fix a small memory leak

[Bernd Petrovitsch]

On Die, 2010-02-02 at 18:35 +0300, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> NAK
> 
> saved_ec is allocated if flag EC_FLAGS_VALIDATE_ECDT is true.
> EC_FLAGS_SKIP_DSDT_SCAN have no sense in such case, thus this new code path
> is never executed.
> On the other hand, unconditionally freeing pointer, which is might be NULL, is not
> right either.
Why that?
"kfree(NULL);" works (and in the user-space "free(NULL)" too FWIW).

> So, this patch introduced more problems as it tries to solve...

	Bernd
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