Re: [RFC PATCH v3 02/37] perf tools: Set vmlinux_path__nr_entries to 0 in vmlinux_path__exit

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

Em Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:01:56AM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov escreveu:
> On 5/17/15 3:56 AM, Wang Nan wrote:
> >Original vmlinux_path__exit() doesn't revert vmlinux_path__nr_entries
> >to its original state. After the while loop vmlinux_path__nr_entries
> >becomes -1 instead of 0. This makes a problem that, if runs twice,
> >during the second run vmlinux_path__init() will set vmlinux_path[-1]
> >to strdup("vmlinux"), corrupts random memory.
> >
> >This patch reset vmlinux_path__nr_entries to 0 after the while loop.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> no need to repost. Arnaldo picked it up already.

Yeah, I try to cherry pick stuff that is not related to the main topic
of a patchkit and that is an independent bug fix.

- Arnaldo

> When you repost it many times, it gets very confusing.
> If patch is not moving, rather ping it in original thread.
> Same with patches 3,4,5.
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