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Message-ID: <20080308083637.GA23555@elte.hu>
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 09:36:37 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"G. Vaughan" <gvaughan@....nasa.gov>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix check after use in kernel/exit.c
* WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> wrote:
> mm_release won't check the mm_struct pointer, so it should be checked
> before this call.
> @@ -582,9 +582,9 @@ static void exit_mm(struct task_struct * tsk)
> {
> struct mm_struct *mm = tsk->mm;
>
> - mm_release(tsk, mm);
> if (!mm)
> return;
> + mm_release(tsk, mm);
thanks, applied. I'm wondering why this never seems to hit in practice.
Ingo
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