[PATCH 7/9] menu: fix memory corruption

[Uwe Kleine-König]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 01:40:15PM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> On 08:24 Mon 23 Aug     , Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > menu_free and menu_entry_free are called on not fully initialized
> > entries, so we have to check for validity before freeing the
> > members.
> > 
> I disagree free is suposed to not fail evenif we pass a NULL pointer
Ack.  (ie. free must accept NULL without barfing.)

free(3) has this feature:

	"free() frees the memory space pointed to by ptr [...].  If ptr
	 is NULL, no operation is performed."

and kfree in the kernel accepts NULL, too.

Best regards
Uwe

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