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From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
To: "Robert T. Johnson" <rtjohnso@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	marcelo@conectiva.com.br, sensors@Stimpy.netroedge.com,
	vsu@altlinux.ru
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4] i2c-dev user/kernel bug and mem leak
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 18:21:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030829182132.29c3ac55.khali@linux-fr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1062033440.16799.22.camel@dooby.cs.berkeley.edu>


> Here's the patch against 2.6.0-test4.  Just to remind everyone, this
> patch doesn't fix any bugs (they're already fixed in 2.6.0-test3), it
> just makes the code pass our static analysis tool, cqual, without
> generating a warning.  Since finding and fixing these bugs is so
> tricky, it seems worthwhile to have code which can be automatically
> verified to be bug-free (at least w.r.t. user/kernel pointers). 
> That's what this patch is about.  Let me know if you have any
> questions or comments. Thanks for everyone's help.

If I read the patch correctly, this is basically a kind of reversal to
your original patch, before Sergey and I changed it?

-- 
Jean Delvare
http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/

  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-29 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-03 17:23 PATCH: 2.4.22-pre7 drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c user/kernel bug and mem leak Jean Delvare
2003-08-04 15:32 ` Sergey Vlasov
2003-08-05  8:32   ` Jean Delvare
2003-08-05 14:10     ` Sergey Vlasov
2003-08-05 21:07     ` Greg KH
2003-08-06  8:07       ` [PATCH 2.4] i2c-dev " Jean Delvare
     [not found]         ` <1060886657.1006.7121.camel@dooby.cs.berkeley.edu>
     [not found]           ` <20030814190954.GA2492@kroah.com>
2003-08-15  2:01             ` Robert T. Johnson
2003-08-15 21:13               ` Greg KH
2003-08-15 22:17                 ` Robert T. Johnson
2003-08-15 23:51                   ` Greg KH
2003-08-18  0:54                     ` Robert T. Johnson
2003-08-18 21:05                       ` Greg KH
2003-09-10 23:02                         ` CQual 0.99 Released: user/kernel pointer bug finding tool Robert T. Johnson
2003-08-28  1:17                 ` [PATCH 2.4] i2c-dev user/kernel bug and mem leak Robert T. Johnson
2003-08-29 16:21                   ` Jean Delvare [this message]
2003-08-29 17:30                     ` Robert T. Johnson

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