From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: line6: fix use-after-free bug
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:57:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130119005731.GA31941@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1358545934-13982-1-git-send-email-grabner@icg.tugraz.at>
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:52:14PM +0100, Markus Grabner wrote:
> The function "line6_send_raw_message_async" now has an additional argument
> "bool copy", which indicates whether the supplied buffer should be copied into
> a dynamically allocated block of memory. The copy flag is also stored in the
> "message" struct such that the temporary memory can be freed when appropriate
> without intervention of the caller.
Why do this? Why not either always copy it, or always not? That would
make it simpler overall, right?
What is this fixing?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-19 0:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-18 21:52 [PATCH] staging: line6: fix use-after-free bug Markus Grabner
2013-01-19 0:57 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2013-01-19 21:55 ` Markus Grabner
2013-01-20 17:11 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-20 22:51 ` Markus Grabner
2013-01-20 23:04 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-06-03 22:49 ` Markus Grabner
2013-06-03 23:08 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-06-04 20:10 ` Markus Grabner
2013-06-19 16:40 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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