Re: kmemcheck caught read from freed memory (cfq_free_io_context)

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 14:11 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 13:07 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > Makes sense, and to me Pauls analysis of the code looks totally correct
> > > - there's no bug there, at least related to hlist traversal and
> > > kmem_cache_free(), since we are under rcu_read_lock() and thus hold off
> > > the grace for freeing.
> 
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  but what holds off the slab allocator re-issueing that same object and
> >  someone else writing other stuff into it?
> 
> Nothing. So you cannot access the object at all after you've called
> kmem_cache_free(). SLAB_RCU or no SLAB_RCU.

Well, you can, but you have to validate you get the object you were
looking for.

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