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From: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb>
To: hadi@cyberus.ca
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iproute2/m_ipt fix, opts was not set properly
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 13:06:39 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200808061306.39846.denys@visp.net.lb> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1218016372.4755.15.camel@localhost>

On Wednesday 06 August 2008, jamal wrote:
> Are you sure this fixes any segfault? example, the variant you have
> below just changes a variable name:
>
> -----
> -static void free_opts(struct option *opts)
> +static void free_opts(struct option *opts_local)
>  {
> -       if (opts != original_opts) {
> -               free(opts);
> +       if (opts_local != original_opts) {
> +               free(opts_local);
>                 opts = original_opts;
>                 global_option_offset = 0;
>         }
> -------
>
> You could respin the patch with comment "change bad smelling name of
> a variable" - and that would be fine by me.

Make attention - before static void free_opts(struct option *opts) was 
shadowing global variable with same name *opts, after this patch - it will 
not shadow anymore.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-06 10:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-05 19:24 iproute2/m_ipt fix, opts was not set properly Denys Fedoryshchenko
2008-08-06  9:52 ` jamal
2008-08-06 10:06   ` Denys Fedoryshchenko [this message]
2008-08-06 10:42     ` jamal
2008-08-06 10:52       ` jamal
2008-08-06 11:02         ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2008-08-06 11:18           ` jamal

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