On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Robin Holt wrote:

> USE_AFTER_FREE!!!  I made this same comment as well as other relavent
> comments last week.

Must have slipped somehow. Patch needs to be applied after the rcu fix.

Please repeat the other relevant comments if they are still relevant.... I 
thought I had worked through them.



mmu_notifier_release: remove mmu_notifier struct from list before calling 
->release

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

---
 mm/mmu_notifier.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6/mm/mmu_notifier.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/mmu_notifier.c    2008-01-28 17:17:05.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6/mm/mmu_notifier.c 2008-01-28 17:17:10.000000000 -0800
@@ -21,9 +21,9 @@ void mmu_notifier_release(struct mm_stru
                rcu_read_lock();
                hlist_for_each_entry_safe_rcu(mn, n, t,
                                          &mm->mmu_notifier.head, hlist) {
+                       hlist_del_rcu(&mn->hlist);
                        if (mn->ops->release)
                                mn->ops->release(mn, mm);
-                       hlist_del_rcu(&mn->hlist);
                }
                rcu_read_unlock();
                synchronize_rcu();

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