From: Dawson Engler <engler@csl.Stanford.EDU>
To: dwmw2@infradead.org (David Woodhouse)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [CHECKER] error path memory leaks in 2.4.4 and 2.4.4-ac8
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 19:38:14 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200105250238.TAA00788@csl.Stanford.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10347.990741765@redhat.com> from "David Woodhouse" at May 24, 2001 11:02:45 PM
> These are all now either fixed or obsoleted in my tree, and I will send a
> patch to Linus shortly. Thankyou.
Good deal. Thanks for letting us know!
> Do you find it useful to get a response such as this? Are you keeping track
> of the bugs you find? (Or is it simply reassuring to confirm that someone's
> paying attention? :)
It's definitely useful, since it lets us keep tabs on what types of bugs
people actually fix ;-) The tool keeps track of the bugs/false positives we
find, so that it can say when we find something new.
> I believe we can make that a short. Arjan?
Is the general way to fix these too-large stack vars to heap allocate
them? Or is it preferable to put a "static" in front of them, if the
routine is non-reentrant?
Dawson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-25 2:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-24 21:07 Dawson Engler
2001-05-24 22:02 ` David Woodhouse
2001-05-25 2:38 ` Dawson Engler [this message]
2001-05-25 7:21 ` arjan
2001-05-24 23:07 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-25 2:54 ` Dawson Engler
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