Re: [PATCH 1/1] tty: release_one_tty() forgets to put pids

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 04/02, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> My general paranoia would suggest setting the pids to NULL.  So that
> we don't have the chance of a use after free.

In this case, I don't think this is needed. We are doing
free_tty_struct()->kfree(tty) right after put_pid()s, nobody
can use these pointers or we have another bug.


Most probably this patch is correct (but perhaps it is not the best fix).
Every time tty does put_pid() it should also clear the pointer. But I am
not sure I grepped enough.

Oleg.

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