Revision 6f5d51148921c242680a7a1d9913384a30ab3cbe authored by Al Viro on 19 December 2009, 15:59:45 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 19 December 2009, 17:27:43 UTC
... aka "Al had badly fscked up when writing that thing and nobody noticed until Eric had fixed leaks that used to mask the breakage". The function essentially creates a copy of old array sans one element and replaces the references to elements of original (they are on cyclic lists) with those to corresponding elements of new one. After that the old one is fair game for freeing. First of all, there's a dumb braino: when we get to list_replace_init we use indices for wrong arrays - position in new one with the old array and vice versa. Another bug is more subtle - termination condition is wrong if the element to be excluded happens to be the last one. We shouldn't go until we fill the new array, we should go until we'd finished the old one. Otherwise the element we are trying to kill will remain on the cyclic lists... That crap used to be masked by several leaks, so it was not quite trivial to hit. Eric had fixed some of those leaks a while ago and the shit had hit the fan... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Kconfig
menuconfig SAMPLES
bool "Sample kernel code"
help
You can build and test sample kernel code here.
if SAMPLES
config SAMPLE_TRACEPOINTS
tristate "Build tracepoints examples -- loadable modules only"
depends on TRACEPOINTS && m
help
This build tracepoints example modules.
config SAMPLE_TRACE_EVENTS
tristate "Build trace_events examples -- loadable modules only"
depends on EVENT_TRACING && m
help
This build trace event example modules.
config SAMPLE_KOBJECT
tristate "Build kobject examples -- loadable modules only"
depends on m
help
This config option will allow you to build a number of
different kobject sample modules showing how to use kobjects,
ksets, and ktypes properly.
If in doubt, say "N" here.
config SAMPLE_KPROBES
tristate "Build kprobes examples -- loadable modules only"
depends on KPROBES && m
help
This build several kprobes example modules.
config SAMPLE_KRETPROBES
tristate "Build kretprobes example -- loadable modules only"
default m
depends on SAMPLE_KPROBES && KRETPROBES
config SAMPLE_HW_BREAKPOINT
tristate "Build kernel hardware breakpoint examples -- loadable module only"
depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT && m
help
This builds kernel hardware breakpoint example modules.
endif # SAMPLES
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