linux-kernel - Re: tty, hvc, xen: leak? dead code? everything is fine?

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Date:	Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:00:48 +0200
From:	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>
To:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...e.de>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: tty, hvc, xen: leak? dead code? everything is fine?

Jesper Juhl, le Thu 12 Apr 2012 23:33:20 +0200, a écrit :
> Or *if* there's actually no way 'info->intfw' can actually be anything but 
> NULL in this case,

There is no way that it's both non-NULL and the if was entered above: if
the if was entered, the content of info is zeroes (kzalloc).

Samuel
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