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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.6] 2/3 Serio: possible race in handle_events
Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 23 August 2003 02:00 am, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net> wrote:
> > > +static int is_known_serio(struct serio *serio)
> > > +{
> > > + struct serio *s;
> > > +
> > > + list_for_each_entry(s, &serio_list, node)
> > > + if (s == serio)
> > > + return 1;
> > > + return 0;
> > > +}
> >
> > Could this just be
> >
> > return !list_empty(&serio->node);
> >
> > ?
>
> The serio could be free()d, I dont think we want to call list_empty with
> a dangling pointer. Or am I missing something?
>

Well if we're playing around with a freed pointer then something is
seriously wrong. Like, someone could have allocated a new one and got the
same address.

If event->serio can point at freed memory and there's any doubt over it
then we should be nulling out event->serio to indicate that.

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