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Date:   Wed, 17 Jun 2020 16:23:04 +0000 (UTC)
From:   Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: ksize() should silently accept a NULL pointer
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On Tue, 16 Jun 2020, William Kucharski wrote:

> Other mm routines such as kfree() and kzfree() silently do the right
> thing if passed a NULL pointer, so ksize() should do the same.

Ok so the size of an no object pointer is zero? Ignoring the freeing
of a nonexisting object makes sense. But determining it size?