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H A Ddmapool.cdiff 44d7175da6ea10e353e69b586bb68bbfef89e403 Tue Sep 08 17:00:56 CDT 2015 Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> mm/dmapool: allow NULL `pool' pointer in dma_pool_destroy()

dma_pool_destroy() does not tolerate a NULL dma_pool pointer argument and
performs a NULL-pointer dereference. This requires additional attention
and effort from developers/reviewers and forces all dma_pool_destroy()
callers to do a NULL check

if (pool)
dma_pool_destroy(pool);

Or, otherwise, be invalid dma_pool_destroy() users.

Tweak dma_pool_destroy() and NULL-check the pointer there.

Proposed by Andrew Morton.

Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/8/583
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>