Re: [CHECKER] free bugs in 2.4.4 and 2.4.4-ac8

Jeff Hartmann (jhartmann@valinux.com)
Fri, 25 May 2001 09:21:53 -0600


Alan Cox wrote:

>
>> return;
>> /u2/engler/mc/oses/linux/2.4.4-ac8/drivers/char/drm/gamma_dma.c:573:gamma_dma_send_buffers: ERROR:FREE:561:573: WARN: Use-after-free of "last_buf"! set by 'drm_free_buffer':561
>> DRM_DEBUG("%d running\n", current->pid);
>
>
> Left for the XFree folk
>

This is a false positive, drm_free_buffer doesn't free any memory
associated with a buffer. This code construct is fine.

-Jeff

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