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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.13-rc3 udev/hotplug use memory after free
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:01:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050725150119.1c2714f3.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7304.1121837704@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>

Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> wrote:
>
> 2.6.13-rc3 + kdb (which does not touch udev/hotplug) on IA64 (Altix).
>  gcc version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux).  Compiled with DEBUG_SLAB,
>  DEBUG_PREEMPT, DEBUG_SPINLOCK, DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP, DEBUG_KOBJECT.
> 
>  There is a use after free somewhere above class_device_attr_show.

Can we obtain a backtrace for this one, Keith?  The function itself is
pretty innocuous and is used by many callers.  I'd be suspectng a bug in
the caller.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-25 22:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-20  5:35 Keith Owens
2005-07-25 22:01 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-07-26  8:21   ` Keith Owens

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