Hello, On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Kent Overstreet <[email protected]> wrote: > IMO, list_del() is preferred when the object shouldn't be reused (i.e. > it gets taken off a list and then it's freed). list_del_init() could > hide bugs.
Nah... use-after-frees are detected much more reliably by poisoning anyway. Using list_del() instead of list_del_init() to hunt down use-after-free isn't a good idea because you're likely to corrupt the memory of unrelated area. I really don't see much point in using list_del(). Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
