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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] task_work: check callback if it's NULL
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在 2013-03-14四的 15:43 +0100,Oleg Nesterov写道:
> On 03/14, liguang wrote:
> >
> > Signed-off-by: liguang <lig.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
> > ---
> > kernel/task_work.c | 3 ++-
> > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/task_work.c b/kernel/task_work.c
> > index 0bf4258..f458b08 100644
> > --- a/kernel/task_work.c
> > +++ b/kernel/task_work.c
> > @@ -75,7 +75,8 @@ void task_work_run(void)
> >
> > do {
> > next = work->next;
> > - work->func(work);
> > + if (unlikely(work->func))
> > + work->func(work);
>
> Why?
>
> Oleg.
>

can we believe a callback always be call-able?
can it happened to be 0? e.g. wrong initialized.
of course, we can complain the caller, be why don't
we easily make it more safer?

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