Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH]: Clean up of __alloc_pages | Date | Mon, 7 Nov 2005 04:42:58 +0100 |
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On Monday 07 November 2005 03:57, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > I don't think so because if the cpuset can be freed, then its page > might be unmapped from the kernel address space if use-after-free > debugging is turned on. And this is a use after free :)
RCU could be used to avoid that. Just only free it in a RCU callback.
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