From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
To: Zichen Xie <zichenxie0106@gmail.com>, linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
Chenyuan Yang <chenyuan0y@gmail.com>,
Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>,
Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>,
Sumit Gupta <sumitg@nvidia.com>,
Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
Zijie Zhao <zzjas98@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: firmware: tegra: bpmp: Fix freeing uninitialized pointers
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2024 18:35:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5e798fd6-5662-48a3-8e3a-758f250828c8@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANdh5G4nX_PoRsWmCo1=TzoFA6k--29iJFgL-N_B_0anziAskg@mail.gmail.com>
> Thank you for the explanation and sorry for not realizing the correct
> deallocation function.
>
> I found in another email thread that the NULL initialization following
> the __free() was mainly for readability but not safety. Sorry for the
> confusion.
>
> We are working on a static analysis tool and wanted to report
> potential bugs. We directly sent a patch trying to reduce developer’s
> burden but didn’t not realize the correct use of Reported-by tag. We
> will be more careful in the future.
Please take another look at another corresponding public information source.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/researcher-guidelines.rst?h=v6.12-rc1#n5
Regards,
Markus
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