--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 11:02:35 PST, Amit Choudhary said:
> > Correct. And doing kfree(x); x=NULL; is not hiding that. These issues can
> > still be debugged by
> > using the slab debugging options. One other benefit of doing this is that
> > if someone tries to
> > access the same memory again using the variable 'x', then he will get an
> > immediate crash.
What did you understand when I wrote that "if you access the same memory again
using the variable
'x"?
Using variable 'x' means using variable 'x' and not variable 'y'.
And
> the
> > problem can be solved immediately, without using the slab debugging
> > options. I do not yet
> > understand how doing this hides the bugs, obfuscates the code, etc. because
> > I haven't seen an
> > example yet, but only blanket statements.
>
> char *broken() {
> char *x, *y;
> x = kmalloc(100);
> y = x;
> kfree(x);
> x = NULL;
> return y;
> }
>
> Setting x to NULL doesn't do anything to fix the *real* bug here, because
> the problematic reference is held in y, not x.
Did I ever say that it fixes that kind of bug?
>So you never get a crash
> because somebody dereferences x.
>
Dereferencing 'x' means dereferencing 'x' and not dereferencing 'y'.
-Amit
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