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From: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking
	<b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org>
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH-maint] batman-adv: fix potential orig_node reference leak
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 01:40 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <27300725.U6R9joZBFU@diderot> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52FA5F12.5090406@meshcoding.com>

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On Tuesday 11 February 2014 18:34:10 Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> true, but since the orig_node has not been returned yet there is no
> other component in batman-adv which is using it.
> 
> Otherwise, we may want to define and invoke a free_now() version of this
> function (like we have done for other objects). But I think kfree() is
> safe here.

It may be safe now but will surely be forgotten later. A guaranteed source for 
trouble. That is why we have cleanup routines for everything.

Cheers,
Marek

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-11 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-08 15:45 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH-maint] batman-adv: fix potential orig_node reference leak Simon Wunderlich
2014-02-11 12:04 ` Marek Lindner
2014-02-11 17:26 ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-11 17:29   ` Martin Hundebøll
2014-02-11 17:34     ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-11 17:40       ` Marek Lindner [this message]
2014-02-11 17:45         ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-11 17:35   ` Simon Wunderlich

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