linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs/ubifs/orphan.c: remove invalid reference to list iterator variable

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Date:	Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:58:46 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
To:	Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
Cc:	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/ubifs/orphan.c: remove invalid reference to list
 iterator variable

On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 09:27 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
> 
> If list_for_each_entry, etc complete a traversal of the list, the iterator
> variable ends up pointing to an address at an offset from the list head,
> and not a meaningful structure.  Thus this value should not be used after
> the end of the iterator.  Replace a field access from orphan by NULL in two
> places.

Pushed to linux-ubifs.git, thanks!

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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