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.
next prev parent 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]
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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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