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SubjectRe: [PATCH] kmemleak: Never return a pointer you didn't 'get'
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On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 12:39 +0100, Phil Carmody wrote:
> Old - If you don't get the last pointer that you looked at, then it will
> still be put, as there's no way of knowing you didn't get it.
>
> New - If you didn't get it, then it refers to something deleted, and
> your work is done, so return NULL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>

Good catch. But I think the code may look slightly simpler as below:

diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
index c1d5867..aacee45 100644
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -1414,9 +1414,12 @@ static void *kmemleak_seq_next(struct seq_file *seq, void *v, loff_t *pos)
++(*pos);

list_for_each_continue_rcu(n, &object_list) {
- next_obj = list_entry(n, struct kmemleak_object, object_list);
- if (get_object(next_obj))
+ struct kmemleak_object *obj =
+ list_entry(n, struct kmemleak_object, object_list);
+ if (get_object(obj)) {
+ next_obj = obj;
break;
+ }
}

put_object(prev_obj);

Thanks.

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