From: Maxin B John <maxin.john@gmail.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, segooon@gmail.com, jkosina@suse.cz,
tglx@linutronix.de, eike-kernel@sf-tec.de,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] devres: Fix possible use after free
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:59:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTimvNoS2ht7vYJn2w6EC9q78TQkhVA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110615081317.GL8141@htj.dyndns.org>
Hi Tejun,
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Yeap, sounds mostly okay but there's no 'possible use after free'.
> Maybe something like, "devres uses the pointer value as key after it's
> freed, which is safe but triggers spurious use-after-free warnings on
> some static analysis tools. Rearrange code to avoid such warnings".
>
Thanks a lot for this suggestion. I think, this describes the patch in
a much better way.
Warm Regards,
Maxin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-15 9:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-14 7:07 Maxin B John
2011-06-14 7:15 ` Tejun Heo
2011-06-14 14:09 ` Maxin B John
2011-06-15 8:13 ` Tejun Heo
2011-06-15 9:59 ` Maxin B John [this message]
2011-06-15 10:00 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2011-06-15 10:12 ` Maxin B John
2011-06-15 17:14 Maxin B John
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