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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ericvh@gmail.com,
	rminnich@lanl.gov
Subject: Re: 9pfs double kfree
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 03:00:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060306080010.GJ21445@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84144f020603052356r321bc78dp66263fbfc73517c6@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 09:56:22AM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
 > On 3/6/06, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
 > > I wonder if we could get away with something as simple as..
 > >
 > > #define kfree(foo) \
 > >         __kfree(foo); \
 > >         foo = KFREE_POISON;
 > >
 > > ?
 > 
 > It's legal to call kfree() twice for NULL pointer. The above poisons
 > foo unconditionally which makes that case break I think.

Bah, I never did like that rule.

		Dave

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http://www.codemonkey.org.uk

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-06  8:00 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
2006-03-06  7:28     ` Dave Jones
2006-03-06  7:56       ` Pekka Enberg
2006-03-06  8:00         ` Dave Jones [this message]
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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