linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] nfs: fix nfs_parse_mount

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Date:	Fri, 3 Apr 2009 15:07:24 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Tom Talpey <tmtalpey@...il.com>
Cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>,
	chuck.lever@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfs: fix nfs_parse_mount_options() double kfree()


* Tom Talpey <tmtalpey@...il.com> 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? 

> Thanks for fixing!

You are welcome!

	Ingo
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