From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>, Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/sl[aou]b: make kfree() aware of error pointers
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 09:36:30 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140910063630.GM6549@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140909221138.2587d864.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 10:11:38PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 07:05:40 +0200 (CEST) Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote:
> This is the sort of error which a static checker could find. I wonder
> if any of them do so.
Yes. Ted asked me to add this to Smatch and that's how we found the
problems in ext4. I'll push it out later this week. It won't find
every single bug.
We have fixed the 8 bugs that Smatch found.
regards,
dan carpenter
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-10 6:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-09 21:25 [PATCH] mm/sl[aou]b: make kfree() aware of error pointers Jiri Kosina
2014-09-09 23:21 ` Andrew Morton
2014-09-10 5:05 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-09-10 5:11 ` Andrew Morton
2014-09-10 6:36 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2014-09-10 13:56 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-09-10 14:27 ` Dave Jones
2014-09-10 14:07 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-09-10 14:24 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-09-10 14:33 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2014-09-10 14:42 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-09-10 15:43 ` Christoph Lameter
2014-09-10 14:26 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-09-10 15:21 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-09-10 15:28 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-09-10 15:53 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-09-10 19:40 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-09-11 14:14 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2014-09-10 14:22 ` Christoph Lameter
2014-09-10 5:15 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2014-09-10 6:51 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-09-10 13:59 ` Christoph Lameter
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