[Bugme-janitors] [Bug 9579] Returning from a function with a pointer to a local variable on kernel/sysctl.c

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http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9579


oleg at tv-sign.ru changed:

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------- Comment #1 from oleg at tv-sign.ru  2007-12-16 07:14 -------
> (3) the local scope closes at line 1274 but the pointer relation
>     persists after the function returns

I think this doesn't matter, we are going to kfree() this ctl_table_header,
and it was removed from root_table_header.ctl_entry.

IOW, nobody should use p, not just p->unregistering. 


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