From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/sl[aou]b: make kfree() aware of error pointers
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 09:22:23 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1409100921060.32538@gentwo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1409100702190.5523@pobox.suse.cz>
On Wed, 10 Sep 2014, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> We obviously don't, as such code will be causing explosions. This is meant
> as a prevention of problems such as the one that has just been fixed in
> ext4.
So we actually think that it is okay to pass an error pointer to kfree
and silently ignore that?
Are we thinking about just accepting any pointer in kfree and ignore
invalid ones?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-10 14:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-09 21:25 Jiri Kosina
2014-09-09 23:21 ` Andrew Morton
2014-09-10 5:05 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-09-10 5:11 ` Andrew Morton
2014-09-10 6:36 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-09-10 13:56 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-09-10 14:27 ` Dave Jones
2014-09-10 14:07 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-09-10 14:24 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-09-10 14:33 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2014-09-10 14:42 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-09-10 15:43 ` Christoph Lameter
2014-09-10 14:26 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-09-10 15:21 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-09-10 15:28 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-09-10 15:53 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-09-10 19:40 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-09-11 14:14 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2014-09-10 14:22 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2014-09-10 5:15 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2014-09-10 6:51 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-09-10 13:59 ` Christoph Lameter
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