Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755959AbbHFOac (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Aug 2015 10:30:32 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f51.google.com ([209.85.220.51]:36014 "EHLO mail-pa0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755744AbbHFOa3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Aug 2015 10:30:29 -0400 Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 23:29:28 +0900 From: Sergey Senozhatsky To: Julia Lawall Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky , Sergey Senozhatsky , David Rientjes , Andrew Morton , Minchan Kim , Christoph Lameter , Pekka Enberg , Joonsoo Kim , Michal Hocko , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] mm/slab_common: allow NULL cache pointer in kmem_cache_destroy() Message-ID: <20150806142928.GD4292@swordfish> References: <1433851493-23685-1-git-send-email-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> <1433851493-23685-2-git-send-email-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> <20150617235205.GA3422@swordfish> <20150806142131.GB4292@swordfish> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23+102 (2ca89bed6448) (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 681 Lines: 19 On (08/06/15 16:27), Julia Lawall wrote: [..] > > 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. > Agree. I'll re-up this thread later (once 4.3 merge window is closed). Thank you. -ss -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/