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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.

  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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