From 64e6f6687c8fc275ddc207fa43f29c4213d3cad2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrea Shepard <andrea@torproject.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 19:50:41 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] channel_free() should be a no-op

---
 src/or/channel.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/or/channel.c b/src/or/channel.c
index 2fe4466e53..690bfb92a7 100644
--- a/src/or/channel.c
+++ b/src/or/channel.c
@@ -763,7 +763,8 @@ channel_init_listener(channel_t *chan)
 void
 channel_free(channel_t *chan)
 {
-  tor_assert(chan);
+  if (!chan) return;
+
   /* It must be closed or errored */
   tor_assert(chan->state == CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED ||
              chan->state == CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR);