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-rw-r--r--mm/slab.c2
-rw-r--r--mm/vmalloc.c7
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index a041c5378df..05a391059fe 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -2998,6 +2998,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kzalloc);
* kfree - free previously allocated memory
* @objp: pointer returned by kmalloc.
*
+ * If @objp is NULL, no operation is performed.
+ *
* Don't free memory not originally allocated by kmalloc()
* or you will run into trouble.
*/
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 67b358e57ef..13c3d82968a 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -332,9 +332,10 @@ void __vunmap(void *addr, int deallocate_pages)
* @addr: memory base address
*
* Free the virtually contiguous memory area starting at @addr, as
- * obtained from vmalloc(), vmalloc_32() or __vmalloc().
+ * obtained from vmalloc(), vmalloc_32() or __vmalloc(). If @addr is
+ * NULL, no operation is performed.
*
- * May not be called in interrupt context.
+ * Must not be called in interrupt context.
*/
void vfree(void *addr)
{
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfree);
* Free the virtually contiguous memory area starting at @addr,
* which was created from the page array passed to vmap().
*
- * May not be called in interrupt context.
+ * Must not be called in interrupt context.
*/
void vunmap(void *addr)
{