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Subject[PATCH] [DISCUSS] Make the variable NULL after freeing it.
Hi,

Was just wondering if the _var_ in kfree(_var_) could be set to NULL after its freed. It may solve
the problem of accessing some freed memory as the kernel will crash since _var_ was set to NULL.

Does this make sense? If yes, then how about renaming kfree to something else and providing a
kfree macro that would do the following:

#define kfree(x) do { \
new_kfree(x); \
x = NULL; \
} while(0)

There might be other better ways too.

Regards,
Amit


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