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Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:59:57 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] devres: Fix possible use after free
From: Maxin B John <maxin.john@gmail.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, segooon@gmail.com, jkosina@suse.cz,
        tglx@linutronix.de, eike-kernel@sf-tec.de,
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Hi Tejun,

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Yeap, sounds mostly okay but there's no 'possible use after free'.
> Maybe something like, "devres uses the pointer value as key after it's
> freed, which is safe but triggers spurious use-after-free warnings on
> some static analysis tools. ?Rearrange code to avoid such warnings".
>
Thanks a lot for this suggestion. I think, this describes the patch in
a much better way.

Warm Regards,
Maxin
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