Re: 9pfs double kfree

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 07:23:46AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
 > On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 11:07:11PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
 > > From: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
 > > Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 02:04:58 -0500
 > > 
 > > > (I wish we had a kfree variant that NULL'd the target when it was free'd)
 > > 
 > > Excellent idea.
 > 
 > ITYM "poison the pointer variable".  Otherwise that sort of crap will go
 > unnoticed.

yeah, even better idea. Just like slab debug, but without the overhead
of poisoning the whole object.

I wonder if we could get away with something as simple as..

#define kfree(foo) \
	__kfree(foo); \
	foo = KFREE_POISON;

?

		Dave

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