Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [hbelusca] 75133: [NTOS]: Revert the pool tag change from r75128, and explain in comment why we cannot actually use it.

[Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo]

imho the more documented the code is, the easier to read and understand
El 19/06/2017 19:48, "Thomas Faber" <thomas.faber(a)reactos.org> escribió:
>   On 2017-06-19 18:29, hbelusca(a)svn.reactos.org wrote:
> >   +        /*
> >  +         * Free it from the pool.
> >  +         *
> >  +         * We cannot use here ExFreePoolWithTag(..., OB_NAME_TAG); ,
> >  because
> >  +         * the object name may have been massaged during operation by
> >  different
> >  +         * object parse routines. If the latter ones have to resolve a
> >  symbolic
> >  +         * link (e.g. as is done by CmpParseKey() and
> >  CmpGetSymbolicLink()),
> >  +         * the original object name is freed and re-allocated from the
> >  pool,
> >  +         * possibly with a different pool tag. At the end of the day,
> >  the new
> >  +         * object name can be reallocated and completely different, but
> >  we
> >  +         * should still be able to free it!
> >  +         */
> >  +        ExFreePool(Buffer);
> >  
>  I feel like
>  ExFreePoolWithTag(Buffer, 0)
>  conveys that same message without needing a huge comment?
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