On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 07:23:46AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 11:07:11PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> > From: Dave Jones <[email protected]>
> > Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 02:04:58 -0500
> >
> > > (I wish we had a kfree variant that NULL'd the target when it was free'd)
> >
> > Excellent idea.
>
> ITYM "poison the pointer variable". Otherwise that sort of crap will go
> unnoticed.
yeah, even better idea. Just like slab debug, but without the overhead
of poisoning the whole object.
I wonder if we could get away with something as simple as..
#define kfree(foo) \
__kfree(foo); \
foo = KFREE_POISON;
?
Dave
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