Re: [PATCH] nfs: fix nfs_parse_mount_options() double kfree()

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Fri Apr 03 2009 - 14:52:58 EST


Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 15:07 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> * Tom Talpey <tmtalpey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> At 03:16 AM 4/3/2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>>> Impact: fix crash
>>>>
>>>> Yinghai Lu reported the following crash:
>>> This has to have been a merge problem, I moved a single kfree()
>>> down a few lines in order to use the pointer in a second context.
>>> With the moved line, it had been running successfully in Trond's
>>> tree and linux-next for several weeks.
>> Maybe the tree got rebased and that introduced this merge artifact?
>
> No, but the linux-next tree also contained cachefs, which hasn't been
> merged yet. Let's keep an eye out when it does...

could be merging sequence.

YH
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