linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mqueue: fix kernel BUG caused by double free() on mq

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Message-ID: <20100513154821.GB5132@cr0.redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 13 May 2010 23:48:21 +0800
From:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@...il.com>
Cc:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Sanchin Sant <sanchinp@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mqueue: fix kernel BUG caused by double free() on
 mq_open()

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 08:17:30AM -0300, André Goddard Rosa wrote:
>Hi, Américo!
>
>> In the latest git, you already removed the above kfree() since it is
>> not necessary. mqueue_delete_inode() will kfree it.
>> so why this fix though?
>
>The applied patch is a newer/better version. This is an old version,
>please just ignore it. Thank you!

Oh, sorry. Yeah, the fix in git is better.

Thanks.
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