From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>,
manfred@colorfullife.com, akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] simplify mqueue_inode_info->messages allocation
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 15:30:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040505153036.K21045@build.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040505135523.GC1418@logos.cnet>; from marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com on Wed, May 05, 2004 at 10:55:23AM -0300
* Marcelo Tosatti (marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com) wrote:
> On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 06:37:22PM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> > * Chris Wright (chrisw@osdl.org) wrote:
> > > --- ./ipc/mqueue.c~single_alloc 2004-05-04 15:16:34.000000000 -0700
> > > +++ ./ipc/mqueue.c~ 2004-05-04 15:59:25.000000000 -0700
> >
> > Ugh! Andrew pointed out to me that this is crap. Sorry about the added
> > noise. Here's a patch relative to a file that actually exists.
>
> While we're at it, in do_create:
>
> ret = vfs_create(dir->d_inode, dentry, mode, NULL);
> if (ret) {
> kfree(msgs);
> return ERR_PTR(ret);
>
> The msgs pointer can be NULL. Isnt that going to BUG if so?
kfree(NULL) is no-op. but if you look at this patch, that is gone
altogether.
thanks,
-chris
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-05 22:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-05 0:42 [PATCH] fix memleak in sys_mq_timedsend Chris Wright
2004-05-05 0:47 ` [PATCH] fix queues_count accounting in mqueue_delete_inode() Chris Wright
2004-05-05 1:06 ` [PATCH] simplify mqueue_inode_info->messages allocation Chris Wright
2004-05-05 1:37 ` Chris Wright
2004-05-05 13:55 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-05-05 22:30 ` Chris Wright [this message]
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