From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] mm/slub.c: remove invalid reference to list iterator variable
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 08:53:13 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1207090853010.27519@router.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1341747464-1772-4-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
On Sun, 8 Jul 2012, Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
>
> If list_for_each_entry, etc complete a traversal of the list, the iterator
> variable ends up pointing to an address at an offset from the list head,
> and not a meaningful structure. Thus this value should not be used after
> the end of the iterator. The patch replaces s->name by al->name, which is
> referenced nearby.
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
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[not found] <1341747464-1772-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
2012-07-08 11:37 ` Julia Lawall
2012-07-09 9:04 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-07-09 13:53 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
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