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On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:

> OK.  -mm has a more sophisticated use-after-free detector.  It might be
> worth dropping that in there, see if we can get more info.
> 
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.5/2.5.64/2.5.64-mm1/broken-out/use-after-free-check.patch

Ok i'll drop that in and leave it to run for a bit.

> OK, thanks.
> 
> All the arch/*/kernel/irq.c implementations are distressingly similar. 
> Andrey Panin did a bunch of work a while back to start consolidating the
> common code but it didn't quite get finished off.  Guess we just have to grit
> our teeth for now.

Possibly didn't continue due to lack of feedback, i think he had 
personally tested most i386 combos.

	Zwane
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