Re: [PATCH] list: kill list_force_poison()

2016-03-02 Thread Eryu Guan
On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 01:44:32PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote: > Given we have uninitialized list_heads being passed to list_add() it > will always be the case that those uninitialized values randomly trigger > the poison value. Especially since a list_add() operation will seed the > stack with the

[PATCH] list: kill list_force_poison()

2016-03-01 Thread Dan Williams
Given we have uninitialized list_heads being passed to list_add() it will always be the case that those uninitialized values randomly trigger the poison value. Especially since a list_add() operation will seed the stack with the poison value for later stack allocations to trip over. For example, s