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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Amit Choudhary <amit2030@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] include/linux/slab.h: new KFREE() macro.
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 09:21:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070102092128.GA5686@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84144f020701011323w1350b9a9n2baa2245f716a221@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 11:23:20PM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> NAK until you have actual callers for it. CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG already
> catches use after free and double-free so I don't see the point of
> this.

And CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG actually finds them for real using poisoning,
unlike setting the pointer to NULL which is too magic to catch most
bugs but rather papers over them.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-02  9:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-01  0:17 [PATCH] include/linux/slab.h: new KFREE() macro Amit Choudhary
2007-01-01  3:01 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-01-01 21:23 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-01-02  9:21   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-01-07  8:46 Amit Choudhary
2007-01-07 10:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-07 22:43   ` Amit Choudhary
2007-01-07 23:22     ` Vadim Lobanov
2007-01-08  0:02       ` Amit Choudhary
2007-01-08  2:35         ` Vadim Lobanov
2007-01-08  4:09           ` Amit Choudhary
2007-01-08  7:04             ` Vadim Lobanov
2007-01-08  7:29               ` Amit Choudhary
2007-01-08  8:15                 ` Vadim Lobanov
2007-01-08  8:47                   ` Amit Choudhary
2007-01-08  9:09                     ` Al Viro
2007-01-08  7:49     ` Hua Zhong
2007-01-08  8:00       ` Pekka Enberg
2007-01-08  8:31         ` Amit Choudhary
2007-01-08  8:37           ` Al Viro
2007-01-08  8:39           ` Sumit Narayan
2007-01-08  8:44             ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-01-08  8:56             ` Amit Choudhary
2007-01-08  8:45           ` Pekka Enberg
2007-01-08  9:06             ` Amit Choudhary
2007-01-08  9:26               ` Pekka Enberg
2007-01-08 22:43               ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-01-09 19:02                 ` Amit Choudhary
2007-01-09 19:19                   ` Randy Dunlap
2007-01-10  4:57                     ` Amit Choudhary
2007-01-09 22:57                   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-01-10  0:00                     ` Amit Choudhary
2007-01-10  2:43                       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-01-08 11:10           ` Jesper Juhl
2007-01-08  8:05       ` Amit Choudhary
2007-01-08  8:12         ` Al Viro
2007-01-08  8:57         ` Hua Zhong
     [not found] <7ADs5-25a-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <7AP02-3l3-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-01-08 18:29   ` Bodo Eggert
2007-07-23 17:55 Amit Choudhary

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