From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@serpentine.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: filldir[64] oddness
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 09:15:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1141924514.17294.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060309170740.GA9876@redhat.com>
On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 12:07 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > About half of the ~50 reports I've looked at so far in their database
> > have been false positives. In most of those cases, it's not obvious how
> > a checker might have gotten them right instead, though.
>
> It seems to stumble quite a bit when faced with things that are
> free'd when refcounts drop to zero. (skbs, and kobjects).
Yes, or (in my case) stuff like "when this variable has value X, that
pointer can't possibly be NULL".
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-09 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-09 4:27 filldir[64] oddness Dave Jones
2006-03-09 4:32 ` David S. Miller
2006-03-09 4:38 ` Dave Jones
2006-03-09 4:40 ` Al Viro
2006-03-09 17:02 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-09 17:07 ` Dave Jones
2006-03-09 17:15 ` Bryan O'Sullivan [this message]
2006-03-09 17:27 ` Dave Jones
2006-03-10 1:41 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-03-10 1:44 ` Al Viro
2006-03-09 4:33 ` Vadim Lobanov
2006-03-09 4:34 ` Stephen Rothwell
2006-03-09 4:38 ` Al Viro
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