linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] tty: release_one

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Message-ID: <20100402210910.7d44766a@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Fri, 2 Apr 2010 21:09:10 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Serge Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ibm.com>, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] tty: release_one_tty() forgets to put pids

> So I'll ACK it. But maybe Alan sees some problem/issue I didn't see.

I have no idea. Someone with the time (not me right now) will have to
trace the error paths or perhaps play safe and NULL any pointers so that
they can free it in the destructor only if one was set ?

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