netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: Silence use after free static checker warning

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Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2025 02:40:37 +0000
From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: Silence use after free static checker
 warning

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>:

On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 10:01:04 +0300 you wrote:
> The cpu_rmap_put() will call kfree() when the last reference is dropped.
> 
> Fortunately, this is not the the last reference so it won't free it
> here.  Unfortunately, static checkers are not clever enough and they
> still warn that this could lead to a use after free on the next line.
> Flip these two statements around to silence the static checker false
> positve.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [v2,net-next] net: Silence use after free static checker warning
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/f252f23ab657

You are awesome, thank you!
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