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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] Eliminate double kfree
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 05:57:50PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> On Thu, 29 May 2008, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>
> > Hi Julia,
> >
> > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 03:05:07PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > > From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
> > >
> > > The variable report is only non-NULL and non-freed in a small region of
> > > code, so it should only be freed in error handling code that comes from
> > > that region.
> > >
> >
> > Thank you for your patch. There isn't a double-kfree though, as far
> > as I can see.
>
> There was a double free because the error handling at the end of the
> function (for input_register_device) would fall through to the
> kfree(report) under err_free_devs, even though report is already freed at
> that point.
>

Ah, yes, indeed.. Well, that decides what branch the patch gets
applied then ;)

--
Dmitry


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