Re: KASAN: invalid-free in p9stat_free

[Dominique Martinet]

Dmitry Vyukov wrote on Mon, Aug 27, 2018:
> kfree and then null pointer is pretty common, try to run:
> 
> find -name "*.c" -exec grep -A 1 "kfree(" {} \; | grep -B 1 " = NULL;"

Hmm, right, it looks like somewhere between 5 and 10% of the kfree()
calls are followed by NULL assignment, that's "common enough" - not
generalized but not rare either.

> Leaving dangling pointers behind is not the best idea.
> And from what I remember a bunch of similar double frees were fixed by
> nulling the pointer after the first kfree.

In this case it really is an error to call p9stat_free again, so let's
just do both.
Will send the patches shortly.


Thanks,
-- 
Dominique