Re: [patch 00/16] timers: Plug debugobject leaks and use del_timer_sync() in exit/teardown

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Mon Mar 24 2014 - 03:30:00 EST


> Another thing I saw is
>
> del_timer(&bla->timer);
> ....
> kfree(&bla);

In one case I saw the following:

if (isac->dch.timer.function != NULL) {
del_timer(&isac->dch.timer);
isac->dch.timer.function = NULL;
}
kfree(isac->mon_rx);
isac->mon_rx = NULL;

Is the assignment isac->dch.timer.function = NULL good enough to solve
the problem?

julia
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