From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4BB358B9.6040805@domain.hid> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:14:17 +0200 From: Jan Kiszka MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4BB1C51F.4010106@domain.hid> <4BB1C5B7.7040400@domain.hid> <4BB1D0EB.30401@domain.hid> <4BB213AD.5020606@domain.hid> <4BB32F45.4010603@domain.hid> <4BB355EF.7070503@domain.hid> <4BB35651.1020307@domain.hid> <4BB3570F.2070702@domain.hid> In-Reply-To: <4BB3570F.2070702@domain.hid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] [git pull] RTDM: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference List-Id: Xenomai life and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Gilles Chanteperdrix Cc: xenomai-core Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: > Jan Kiszka wrote: >> Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: >>> Jan Kiszka wrote: >>>> Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: >>>>> Jan Kiszka wrote: >>>>>> Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: >>>>>>> Jan Kiszka wrote: >>>>>>>> The following changes since commit 6b3e8f2e5c69397814cb2f4029cdfbaff16e113e: >>>>>>>> Gilles Chanteperdrix (1): >>>>>>>> doc: regenerate >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> are available in the git repository at: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> git://git.xenomai.org/xenomai-jki.git for-upstream >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Unfortunately too late for 2.5.2, fortunately only relevant if something >>>>>>>> else went wrong in create_instance (ENOMEM or application error). >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Wolfgang Mauerer (1): >>>>>>>> RTDM: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> ksrc/skins/rtdm/core.c | 2 +- >>>>>>>> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> Was not there any plan to remove this code and have a more "posix >>>>>>> compliant" close? I thought this had been merged? >>>>>> Yes. But that requires more work than it would have been appropriate for >>>>>> 2.5.2. >>>>> Ok, but could we have it for 2.5.3? >>>>> >>>> Will see what I can do (no budget for this, so no promise). >>> The patches are floating around for some time (I was in CC of the mail >>> Philippe sent you about this some time ago), I guess some testing is >>> needed, this is why you need some time? Could we help with this testing? >>> >> Then I totally lost track of this. What series are you referring to? > > A (private) mail entitled "Re: RTDM close() refactoring" from Philippe, > with in fact, a unique patch. > Ah, now I found it. That discussion ended last September with a "Don't bother yet" by Philippe as he said you pointed out some remaining issues /wrt POSIX compliance. So I stopped bothering. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux