From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: davej@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ericvh@gmail.com,
rminnich@lanl.gov
Subject: Re: 9pfs double kfree
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 07:23:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060306072346.GF27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060305.230711.06026976.davem@davemloft.net>
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 11:07:11PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
> Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 02:04:58 -0500
>
> > (I wish we had a kfree variant that NULL'd the target when it was free'd)
>
> Excellent idea.
ITYM "poison the pointer variable". Otherwise that sort of crap will go
unnoticed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-06 7:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-06 7:04 9pfs double kfree Dave Jones
2006-03-06 7:07 ` David S. Miller
2006-03-06 7:23 ` Al Viro [this message]
2006-03-06 7:28 ` Dave Jones
2006-03-06 7:56 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-03-06 8:00 ` Dave Jones
2006-03-06 8:16 ` Al Viro
2006-03-06 8:23 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-03-06 8:27 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-06 8:40 ` Kai Makisara
2006-03-06 9:34 ` Al Viro
2006-03-06 22:07 ` Pavel Machek
2006-03-09 14:48 ` Luke-Jr
2006-03-06 7:26 ` Balbir Singh
2006-03-06 7:31 ` Dave Jones
2006-03-06 7:39 ` Balbir Singh
2006-03-07 0:37 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-07 1:04 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2006-03-07 2:20 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2006-03-07 1:49 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2006-03-07 12:43 ` [PATCH] v9fs: fix for access to unitialized variables or freed memory Latchesar Ionkov
2006-03-07 23:04 ` Andrew Morton
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