Re: [PATCH] prevent free setting same cursor in worker in red_set_cursor

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On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 10:26:40AM +0100, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> Currently caller don't call red_set_cursor with cursor in worker->cursor
> but in theory is possible.
> Doing so could cause the cursor to be freed and than reused as initially
> the reference counter is 1 so object is freed but then attempted to
> be used again.

I would say if the caller is doing that, then it should own a reference
to the cursor and not rely on the reference owned by 'something else'
(in this case RedWorker) to keep the object alive while it's being set.

Christophe

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