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Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 11:32:00 -0500
From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
To: Eric Lammerts <eric@lammerts.org>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Would the father of init_mem_lth please stand up
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0112081240080.7546-100000@ally.lammerts.org>; from eric@lammerts.org on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:47:05PM +0100
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On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:47:05PM +0100, Eric Lammerts wrote:

> I agree it's ugly, but why would kfree be called on dangling pointers?
> All those pointers are initialized again on every sd_init() call. And
> there are no "goto cleanup_mem"s between the kmallocs.
> 
> Eric

I was too rush - indeed there are no gotos between kmallocs.
So the scenario that I presented cannot happen.

-- Pete
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