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Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 18:52:43 +0300
From: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
To: okaya@kernel.org
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 09/11] malloc: check result of malloc_elem_free
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2022-11-21 17:32 (UTC-0500), okaya@kernel.org:
> From: Sinan Kaya <okaya@kernel.org>
> 
> In malloc_heap_free result of call to malloc_elem_free is dereferenced
> here and may be null.

It may not: "malloc_elem_free()" never returns NULL by definition:
it takes a valid busy element and returns a valid free element.
How about annotating the function instead?