Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:00:24 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH -R] Re: 2.4.10 is toxic to my system when I use my US |
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On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Nemosoft Unv. wrote:
> > list_del (p); > > p = p->next; > > delete_desc (s, desc);
> Personally, I say the above piece of code is faulty. Refering to a > pointer after you appearently deleted it, is just very bad programming > practice.
yep. this is one reason why the 2.4.10 kernel clears the ->next and ->prev pointers in list_del() - the above code will break immediately.
Ingo
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