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

From: Trond Myklebust
Date: Fri Apr 03 2009 - 09:26:14 EST


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...

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Trond Myklebust
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