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Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 09:21:53 -0600
From: Jeff Hartmann <jhartmann@valinux.com>
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Subject: Re: [CHECKER] free bugs in 2.4.4 and 2.4.4-ac8
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Alan Cox wrote:

> 
>> 		return;
>> /u2/engler/mc/oses/linux/2.4.4-ac8/drivers/char/drm/gamma_dma.c:573:gamma_dma_send_buffers: ERROR:FREE:561:573: WARN: Use-after-free of "last_buf"! set by 'drm_free_buffer':561
>> 		DRM_DEBUG("%d running\n", current->pid);
> 
> 
> Left for the XFree folk
> 

This is a false positive, drm_free_buffer doesn't free any memory 
associated with a buffer.  This code construct is fine.

-Jeff