Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH 2/6] drivers/md: remove null pointer dereference

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 01:51:41PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> In looking at it a little bit, it seems that ps.type is initialized in the
> function stored in the ctr field of the target_type structure and this
> function is called in the function stored in the message field of the same
> structure.  The function in the message structure seems to be only called
> from the function target_message in dm-ioctl.c, but I don't see the
> relation to an invocation of the ctr field.  Is that guaranteed to be
> invoked earlier?
 
ctr is short for constructor (perhaps we should rename these functions one day)
and it has to run first to set up the data structures which a subsequent
target_message may reference.

Alasdair
-- 
agk@xxxxxxxxxx
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

[Index of Archives]     [Kernel Development]     [Kernel Announce]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Linux Networking Development]     [Share Photos]     [IDE]     [Security]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Device Mapper]

  Powered by Linux