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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@huawei.com>,
	linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Yi Zhang <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] afs: Fix memory leak in afs_put_sysnames()
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2020 18:08:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1346217.1591031323@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <779b327f-b0fa-e21f-cbf6-5cadeca58581@web.de>

Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> wrote:

> > sysnames should be freed after refcnt being decreased to zero in
> > afs_put_sysnames().
> 
> How do you think about a wording variant like the following?
> 
>    Release the sysnames object after its reference counter was decreased
>    to zero.

I would say "reference count" not "reference counter" personally.  I would
also say "afs_sysnames" rather than "sysnames".  Perhaps something like:

	Fix afs_put_sysnames() to actually free the specified afs_sysnames
	object after its reference count has been decreased to zero and its
	contents have been released.

> Will it matter to mention the size of the data structure "afs_sysnames"?

Why is it necessary to do so?

David


  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-01 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-01 14:40 [PATCH v2] afs: Fix memory leak in afs_put_sysnames() Markus Elfring
2020-06-01 17:08 ` David Howells [this message]
2020-06-01 18:04   ` [v2] " Markus Elfring
2020-06-01 18:52     ` David Howells
2020-06-02  5:51       ` Markus Elfring
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-06-01 13:27 [PATCH v2] " Zhihao Cheng

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