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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>,
	Chris Vance <cvance@nai.com>, Wayne Salamon <wsalamon@nai.com>,
	James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>,
	dgoeddel@trustedcs.com, Karl MacMillan <kmacmillan@tresys.com>,
	Frank Mayer <mayerf@tresys.com>,
	selinux@tycho.nsa.gov, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] don't do pointless NULL checks and casts before kfree() in security/
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:34:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9581.1111505666@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0503201316270.2501@dragon.hyggekrogen.localhost>


Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> wrote:

> --- linux-2.6.11-mm4-orig/security/keys/key.c	2005-03-16 15:45:42.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.11-mm4/security/keys/key.c	2005-03-20 12:40:19.000000000 +0100
> ...
> -	if (candidate)
> -		kfree(candidate);
> +	kfree(candidate);

Looks okay to me. It's probably less efficient though, but more space
efficient.

> --- linux-2.6.11-mm4-orig/security/keys/user_defined.c	2005-03-16 15:45:42.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.11-mm4/security/keys/user_defined.c	2005-03-20 12:41:54.000000000 +0100
> @@ -182,9 +182,7 @@ static int user_match(const struct key *
>   */
>  static void user_destroy(struct key *key)
>  {
> -	struct user_key_payload *upayload = key->payload.data;
> -
> -	kfree(upayload);
> +	kfree(key->payload.data);

There's a patch in Andrew Morton's tree that changes this to make use of RCU,
so I'd prefer you didn't do this just yet.

David

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-03-22 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-20 12:29 [PATCH] don't do pointless NULL checks and casts before kfree() in security/ Jesper Juhl
2005-03-20 12:50 ` Ralph Corderoy
2005-03-20 13:18   ` Jesper Juhl
2005-03-20 13:31     ` Ralph Corderoy
2005-03-20 14:04       ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2005-03-20 14:39       ` Jesper Juhl
2005-03-21 10:17         ` Ralph Corderoy
2005-03-22 15:00 ` Stephen Smalley
2005-03-22 15:00   ` Stephen Smalley
2005-03-22 20:57   ` [PATCH] don't do pointless NULL checks and casts before kfree() in security/selinux/ Jesper Juhl
2005-03-22 15:34 ` David Howells [this message]
2005-03-22 20:46   ` [PATCH] don't do pointless NULL checks and casts before kfree() in security/ Jesper Juhl
     [not found] <fa.p25ihnj.4026at@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.iqmuavi.o6kfai@ifi.uio.no>
2005-03-20 13:18   ` Bodo Eggert

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