From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx197.postini.com [74.125.245.197]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7647C6B006E for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 09:53:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 08:53:13 -0500 (CDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] mm/slub.c: remove invalid reference to list iterator variable In-Reply-To: <1341747464-1772-4-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> Message-ID: References: <1341747464-1772-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> <1341747464-1772-4-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Julia Lawall Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Pekka Enberg , Matt Mackall , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 8 Jul 2012, Julia Lawall wrote: > From: Julia Lawall > > 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org