Sasha, How is this patch broken? It builds and clearly frees the list entries. Please explain how to me. Nick
On 2015-01-22 11:50 PM, Sasha Levin wrote: > On 01/22/2015 08:05 AM, Corey Minyard wrote: >> Patch is queued for 3.20. Thanks. > > That patch is horribly broken. > > > Thanks, > Sasha > >> -corey >> >> On 01/19/2015 09:14 PM, Nicholas Krause wrote: >>> This adds a loop through the elements in the linked list, recv_msgs using >>> list_for_entry_safe in order to free messages in this list. In addition >>> we are using the safe version of this marco in order to prevent use after >>> bugs related to deleting the element we are on currently by holding a >>> pointer to the next element after the current one we are on and freeing >>> with the function, ipmi_free_recv_msg internally in this loop. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <[email protected]> >>> --- >>> drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c | 7 ++++--- >>> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c >>> b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c >>> index ec318bf..d2af38a 100644 >>> --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c >>> +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c >>> @@ -157,14 +157,15 @@ static int ipmi_release(struct inode *inode, struct >>> file *file) >>> { >>> struct ipmi_file_private *priv = file->private_data; >>> int rv; >>> + struct ipmi_recv_msg *msg, *next; >>> >>> rv = ipmi_destroy_user(priv->user); >>> if (rv) >>> return rv; >>> >>> - /* FIXME - free the messages in the list. */ >>> - kfree(priv); >>> - >>> + list_for_each_entry_safe(msg, next, &priv->recv_msgs, link) { >>> + ipmi_free_recv_msg(msg); >>> + } >>> return 0; >>> } >>> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >> the body of a message to [email protected] >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ Openipmi-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openipmi-developer
